Deep beneath the icy waters of Antarctica, scientists stumbled upon something that looked straight out of a sci-fi movie — a massive, mysterious egg. 🥚🌊 At first, no one knew what creature could have laid it, but the truth left researchers speechless. Could it belong to a prehistoric sea monster… or something we’ve never seen before? Antarctica has always been full of secrets, but this one might be the strangest yet. Get ready for a discovery that feels like the beginning of a real-life monster story. Don’t miss it! Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/
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00:01The whole internet is buzzing about an unusual discovery on Google Maps in Antarctica.
00:07Southeast of Japan's Showa Station, someone noticed a giant door standing out in the icy landscape.
00:14Some call it Bigfoot's vacation home, or a shuttle from Star Trek.
00:19Others say it's a blown-off Boeing door that somehow ended up in the snow.
00:24Scientists have a way less exciting explanation.
00:27It looks like the so-called doorway is actually part of vast sea ice.
00:32It floats near the coast where the water is shallow, and islands are scattered around.
00:37This spot could simply be an iceberg that got stuck and is slowly melting right where it is.
00:43You can see other icebergs nearby in the same area.
00:46Ice flowing around a solid underwater rock could have formed a natural pattern.
00:51The ice is pretty thin here, and because of the rocks underneath, the ice forms unique shapes.
00:58Geologists add that the mysterious find is just a rocky ridge sticking up because the ice level has dropped a bit.
01:04The top of it is the ridge, and the sides are two snow tails, long streaks of snow shaped by the wind.
01:11These snow tails show which direction the wind usually blows in this area.
01:15The previous mysterious Google Maps find in Antarctica was a pyramid that turned out to be a mountain.
01:26You can easily find it if you scroll all the way to the Ellsworth Mountains.
01:31It's the tallest mountain range in Antarctica, and it stretches for almost 250 miles.
01:35It's not the first pyramid on this continent, as explorers from the British Antarctic expedition found another unusually shaped mountain and nicknamed it the pyramid.
01:47But this one didn't have a pyramid shape after all.
01:49So nope, there are no pyramids in Antarctica.
01:53Sorry to ruin it for you.
01:59In 2011, scientists from Chile found a strange fossil in Antarctica that looked like a squashed football.
02:05It received the nickname, The Thing, because it looked like something from a science fiction movie.
02:11It turned out it was a giant soft shell egg from around 66 million years ago.
02:17It was more than 11 inches long and 7 inches wide.
02:21The only bigger egg ever found was of the extinct Madagascan elephant bird, which was one and a half times as tall as Michael Jordan.
02:29The Antarctic egg is also special because it's the first fossil egg ever found in this part of the world.
02:37So whoever left it there must have been huge, probably a giant sea reptile that lived long ago, like a Mosasaur.
02:45This is surprising because most scientists thought these creatures didn't even lay eggs.
02:51The egg is also unique because it has a thin eggshell and no pores, which is totally different from most dinosaur eggs.
02:59Scientists did a lot of work and studied 259 types of living reptiles, like lizards and snakes, and their eggs.
03:07From this, they figured out that the creature who laid the egg was probably at least 23 feet long, not counting her tail.
03:15During the late Cretaceous period, this part of Antarctica must have served as their nursery.
03:20Paleontologists have found bones of tiny Mosasaurs and Plesiosaurs in the same area, as well as bones from the grown-up ones.
03:31If you've ever lost your ID and still can't find it, try looking under the Antarctic ice.
03:37Well, at least it worked for a man who was reunited with his security access card after 21 years.
03:42Rod Budd, a technician studying sea life on the Antarctic seafloor, spotted the card while he was diving at a place called Cape Evans.
03:51Rod thought it might be a credit card, so he put it in his pocket and kept working.
03:56When he took a closer look, he realized it actually belonged to someone named David McCaw.
04:01The card stayed with the research institute where Rod worked for eight more years, until they finally managed to find David.
04:09It turned out that he had never been to Antarctica.
04:12In 2003, someone broke into his car in Wellington, New Zealand, and they tossed the contents of his briefcase into the harbor.
04:20So, the card traveled over 2,400 miles in 13 years.
04:25There aren't even ocean currents that move directly from Wellington to Cape Evans.
04:29If the card went through different ocean currents, the journey would take around 1,000 years.
04:36So, maybe it got attached to something else that could float more easily, like a piece of debris or a plant that can grow on objects and make them buoyant.
04:44Or, maybe the person who took David's briefcase was on a ship that went to Antarctica.
04:49Or, the card somehow stuck to the bottom of a research boat that ended up there.
04:53In case you want to see probably the coolest find from Antarctica, you gotta head to the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan.
05:05They'll display a meteorite the size of a rugby ball that came all the way from Mars.
05:10A Japanese research team found it in Antarctica in the year 2000.
05:16They believe a massive asteroid impact blasted the meteorite off its home planet before it traveled through space and landed on Earth.
05:24It's one of the largest Mars meteorites ever found, weighing 28 pounds.
05:28Scientists studied the gas inside the rock to confirm it's from Mars, and they also found special minerals inside that form when water is present.
05:39This means Mars likely had water a long time ago.
05:42So, studying the rock may help us learn more about whether life could have existed on a red planet.
05:47A team of sound experts found a huge underwater canyon in Antarctica, thanks to bad weather.
05:58They had to pause their work at the Casey Research Station.
06:01Instead of waiting around, they decided to use the unexpected free time to map the seafloor near Adams Glacier.
06:07And that's how they found a canyon that is almost 7,000 feet deep, almost 30,000 feet wide, and stretches over 28 miles away from the glacier.
06:19The icebreaker they were on uses a special tool called a multi-beam echo sounder.
06:25It sends out sound waves in a fan shape under the ship, then listens for the echoes to create a detailed map of the ocean floor.
06:32During the mapping, they discovered just part of the canyon before they had to return to the research station.
06:38But when bad weather returned, the ship went back and mapped even more of it.
06:43They were working among waves up to 13 feet high and winds up to 50 knots, but they still managed to get about 15 hours of data to complete their map.
06:53On their way back to Australia, they stopped one last time to fill in any missing spots on the map.
06:58This advanced mapping technology is helping scientists learn more about the history of glaciers and ocean interactions in Antarctica.
07:10A scientist was browsing through satellite images for brown trails of penguin droppings and found four new colonies of emperor penguins in Antarctica.
07:19This means there are now 66 breeding colonies for this vulnerable species.
07:26These new colonies likely have been around for years, though they're mostly small with fewer than a thousand pairs of breeding penguins each.
07:34Some of these colonies are close to other penguin areas, like the one that's not far from an old research station that never reported penguins nearby.
07:42One of the new colonies was found close to a place called the Lazarive Ice Shelf, where there used to be a larger penguin colony.
07:51They thought this colony went extinct in 2019, but it seems the penguins have just moved a bit because of changing sea ice conditions.
07:59If we add the newly found penguins to the total population of this breed, it doesn't change the picture a lot.
08:06But it can help scientists see how emperor penguins adapt to the changing conditions.
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