2 hours agoAntarctica's Mystery World
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)New scientific techniques have expanded our knowledge about the earthly wildlife of Antarctica. The kings of spiders and small bacteria may not have the penguin's charisma, but they have great credit for living in extreme conditions. This week, the United States and Great Britain have launched a project [...]
This week, the United States and Great Britain have launched a joint project to investigate glaciers, whose collapse may cause rise in sea level.
The largest permanent earthly creature is the kind of wingless milk mine that lives in a truly pleasant climate on the Antarctic Peninsula, reports “DW” Transmission Periscope.
In this microscopic world, scientists are making surprising discoveries about Antarctica's wealth and diversity of life. With the help of increasingly sophisticated DNA sequence techniques, they have identified at least 15 important ecologic points.
A polar ecologist from the University of Wikato, New Zealand, has spent all summer exploring the Antarctic's Shackleton glacier.
One of the things that needs to be done is to build a reference catalog in the library in what he lived in, where he lived, and what are their genetic signs”, he said.
Ceridden Fraser from the Australian National University used molecular genetics to investigate earth samples collected from the spectacular ice cave around Mount Erebus, the world's most active southern volcano.
Last year a large chunk of glacier melted, revealing a deep sea area that had not seen sunlight for 120, 000 years./Periscopi/
