new life
Aren’t these gorgeous? They look like frozen hearts sitting on glass pedestals.
They are early inhabitants of an area near Antarctica that has been disturbed by an iceberg and are called tunicates. “Australia’s Aurora Australis and collaborating vessels L’Astrolabe (France) and Umitaka Maru (Japan) have returned from the Southern Ocean, their decks overflowing with a vast array of ocean life including a number of previously unknown species collected from the cold waters near the East Antarctic land mass.”
Read the entire article and view all the pictures here.