Behold the “Brinicle”, the icy arm of frozen death in the Antarctic Sea

Watch as starfish run in fear and humans stare in awe at this super-chilled channel of brine and ice, so cold that it could kill anything in its path. It’s a truly odd phenomenon of hydrology, go check out this BBC Nature website for a full explanation of how it works.

(by cwmbro, from BBC’s Frozen Planet)

Source: youtube.com

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    This is too cool *.* Starfish in time lapse.
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    quite seriously is the scariest shit I have ever watched
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    WTF. Oh, nature…
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  17. ucsdhealthsciences said: not gonna lie, when I saw this posted all over the place T-Day weekend it gave me the urge to watch “Day After Tomorrow.”
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