'Brinicle' ice finger of death

By Ben • animals, nature • 30 Nov 2011

The brinicle is pretty awesome, but any timelapse of star fish moving around will probably end up on this site.

Here's the description from BBC Nature:

"With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking. The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it.Where the so-called 'brinicle' met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish. The unusual phenomenon was filmed for the first time by cameramen Hugh Miller and Doug Anderson for the BBC One series Frozen Planet."

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