Scientists have also used drilling and other techniques to look
at ancient ecosystems under other ice shelves, but those methods often leave an incomplete picture.
Not exact matches
New research using
ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction
at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of
ecosystems over millennia.
The
ecosystem may be nourished
at least in part by microbes that feed on organic goo in the subglacial mud — the remains of
ancient plankton that died and sank to the bottom millions of years ago, when the world was warmer and this place was a sunlit sea.
The new find confirms that the
ancient lavas formed
at midocean ridges and found throughout deep ocean basins are by volume the largest
ecosystem on Earth, scientists say.