10 Most Mysterious Recent Discoveries From Antarctica

From volcanoes about to erupt at any moment, to giant eggs of a long lost creature, here are 10 strange discoveries found in Antarctica. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 10. Ice Tunnels Underneath one of the most remote outposts in the world, there is a network of tunnels cut into the ice! Amundsen-Scott Station is a research hub that can house hundreds of researchers at a time with state-of-the-art technology. 9. Subglacial Volcano In 2013, scientists published an alarming study describing the first-ever discovery of a subglacial Antarctic volcano! Found in the Marie Byrd Land highland region, nobody knows when it will erupt, but when it does happen, it “will create millions of gallons of water beneath the ice -- many lakes full,” according to a statement from study leader Doug Wiens. He further explained that the eruption will send water gushing toward the sea and into a major ice stream, which drains Antarctic ice into the Ross Ice Shelf. 8. Leningradskaya Station For 20 years from 1971 to 1991, Leningradskaya Station served as the Soviet Union’s Antarctic base, where scientists studied meteorology, glaciology, oceanology, magnetism, and more. Built on a tall cliff by the 15th Soviet Antarctic Expedition on the Oates Coast of the Victoria Land region, it regularly combated extreme winds, storms, and cold, which made life at Leningradskaya far from comfortable and perhaps even dangerous. 7. Long Lost Wallet While stationed in Antarctica in 1967 and 1968, Navy meteorologist Paul Grisham lost his wallet. He cut his losses, moved on, and eventually forgot about it -- until 53 years later, when someone returned the 91-year-old’s long-lost property. 6. Future Plants In recent years, scientists discovered evidence that West Antarctica was a lush temperate rainforest around 90 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, standing in stark contrast to its current barren and frozen state. Practically nothing can live there now ! 5. Martian Mineral Science Magazine recently reported the discovery of a rare martian mineral rarely seen on Earth, beneath the Antarctic ice. Known as Jarosite, it is a yellow-brown mineral that requires water and acidic conditions to form, according to NASA. It is actually found in abundance on Mars. Scientists have long wondered how jarosite became so plentiful on Mars, with some speculating that the planet was once covered in ice, facilitating the process necessary for it to form. 4. Mummified Penguins In 2016, ornithologist Steven Emslie discovered dozens of penguin corpses -- some long-dead and mummified, others who appeared to be recently deceased -- at Cape Irizar on the Scott Coast of the Ross Sea. 3. Fossilized Egg In 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a fossil egg resembling a deflated football on Seymour Island, off the Antarctic coast. Then, it sat unidentified for nearly a decade in the collections of Chile’s National Museum of Natural History. Dating back an estimated 68 million years, it likely belonged to a gigantic extinct marine reptile -- perhaps a mosasaur -- that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. 2. Underwater Methane Leak Last year, researchers revealed the 2011 discovery of the first known underwater methane leak in Southern Antarctica, beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is up to 25 times more capable than carbon dioxide of exacerbating climate change. In other places throughout the world, methane-eating microbes eat the gas spewing from leaks, preventing it from entering the atmosphere. 1. HUMAN-SIZED PENGUIN Between 37 and 40 million years ago, penguins taller than the average modern human roamed Antarctica, according to a 2014 study by a team of researchers from the La Plata Museum in Argentina. Dubbed the “colossus penguin” (Palaeeudyptes klekowskii), the fossil used for the research is the most complete fossil ever found in Antarctica. #mysteriousdiscoveries #recentdiscoveries #discoveriesfromantarctica #originsexplained