A hidden world of aquatic life has been discovered 500m below the ice in Antarctica with shrimp like creatures in a vast cathedral-like cavern.
Scientists from New Zealand found the exciting new ecosystem under the Ross ice shelf as they were investigating the impact of global warming in a suspected estuary.
Researchers from universities in Wellington, Auckland and Otago, the National Institute of Water and Atmospherics (Niwa) and Geological and Nuclear Sciences drilled down through the ice shelf and into the river below.
