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Antarctic Beauty & Death: The Brinicle

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Antarctic Beauty & Death: The Brinicle
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Antarctic Beauty & Death: The Brinicle, Icy Finger of Death, Video: In this fascinating footage, watch an ice stalactite -- or brinicle -- grow downward in Antarctic waters. Its lovely, briny creep is deadly to sea creatures. Watch as a brinicle plunges toward the seabed from the Antarctic ice shelf above.

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