No Specimens
Since Griffiths and his crew didn’t have any specimens to examine, they could not determine how old these creatures are. Sponges could live for thousands of years, so this could possibly even be an ancient ecosystem.
No Specimens
In Danger
While the researchers could go back and figure out some of these answers, there is a ticking clock. The rock that’s tucked under half a mile of ice is all at risk of our ever-warming planet. Griffiths says: “There is a potential that some of these big ice shelves in the future could collapse and we could lose a unique ecosystem.”
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In Danger