A squid eats a fish at a depth of nearly 950 meters in the Bellingshausen Sea.ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute
Less certain is how this vibrant ecosystem will fare now that the iceberg has broken away. Many deep-sea dwellers are adapted to unchanging conditions found in their environment, so they are highly sensitive to even small environmental shifts. For the life-forms uncovered in Bellingshausen Sea, the dramatic loss of their former iceberg ceiling may rock their ecosystem.
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