Amazing discovery in Antarctica: sea anemones found living upside down under ice (photos)

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By Jeremy HanceJan 27, 2014, 3:22 pm202 pts
Sea anemones are supposed to sit on the bottom of the ocean, using their basal disc (or adhesive foot) to rest on a coral reef orsand. So, imagine the surprise of geologists in Antarctica when they discovered a mass of sea anemones hanging upside from the underside of the Ross Ice Shelf like a village of wispy…

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