Massive Glacier Collapse Caught On Camera In Ilulissat, Greenland

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A team of university scientists and colleague were greatly surprised to discover an ancient tundra landscape preserved under the Greenland Ice Sheet, below two miles of ice!
A 1-ounce sample of sediment was filled with clues of Greenland's past. Tiny little black specks, when put under the microscope, revealed an insect eye, an Arctic poppy seed, parts of an Arctic willow, and tiny bits of soil fungus and spike moss — a "frozen ecosystem lies underneath the ice."

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