As if surviving the freezing waters of the polar regions isn’t hard enough, some marine animals face a terrifying salty underwater stalactite skulking slowly towards them. Those that don’t or can’t move away in time – like slow-moving starfish and urchins – freeze to death in its clutches.
These lethal ice tubes are known as brinicles, shortened from brine icicles because they are icicles made of brine (very salty water).
They form because the air is…
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