Photo Credit: Ken Halanych
Researchers Candace Grimes (left) and Damien Waits process recently collected annelid worms in the lab on board the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer.
Charting a Genetic Sea Change
How the DNA of Sea Creatures Contain a Coded Map of Ancient Antarctica
By Michael Lucibella,
Photo Credit: Ken Halanych
(Left to right) Rich Thompson, Colin Brayton and Alex Brett work to set up the Megacore sampler before it s dropped over the side of the ship to collect samples from the seafloor.
In October, despite the ongoing COVID pandemic, a team of researchers sailed from California to Antarctica to bring back the sea creatures with evidence of a long-lost transantarctic sea coded into their genes.