Something Weird is Happening Beneath Antarctica’s Ice
Auralis
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Narrated by the fantastic Steve Taylor, a real voice you may find familiar!
And with Leo Richards from @NaturalWorldFacts as a co-producer, working to make these episodes beautiful, yet deeply scientific.
Antarctica should be almost completely devoid of life. But the deeper beneath the ice we look, the stranger it gets. From microscopic ecosystems just centimetres below the surface to thriving marine worlds, ancient bacteria, and lakes sealed away for millions of years, life keeps appearing where it shouldn’t be possible. So what’s really hiding beneath Antarctica? And could the discoveries buried kilometres below the ice help us find life on other worlds?
00:00 - What’s Hiding Beneath Antarctica?
00:59 - Alien Worlds Beneath the Ice - 30cm Deep
07:06 - The Greenest Water on Earth - A Few Metres Deep
11:28 - A Lost World Beneath the Ice - 150m Deep
14:40 - The Discovery That Shouldn’t Exist - 900m Deep
19:29 - The Lake Sealed for 35 Million Years - 4km Deep
24:14 - The Ancient Viruses Trapped in Ice
28:33 - Could Life Be Hiding on an Icy Moon?
32:20 - The Deepest Point Beneath Antarctica - 4.7km Deep
35:06 - Earth’s Final Frontier
In case you are interested in helping us TRANSLATE our videos into other languages, by scripting, voiceover acting, or subtitling, please reach out! The people in your country should be able to access these nature documentaries, too! Contact us: auralis@telos.so
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Auralis is co-founded by Oliver Gilpin and Leo Richards of @NaturalWorldFacts It was formerly branded Life & The Earth / Oceans, but changed in October 2025.
The real humans who made this episode:
Co-Producer & Advisor: Leo Richards
Director of Production: Cameron Jones
Creative Director: Tyler Fleishman
Video Editor: Ignacio Garcia Castro
Animation: Matías Fernández
Sound Designer: Franco Amato
Thumbnail Artist: Tyler Fleishman
Script Writer: Julia Masselos
Script Editor: Robert Vivian
Researcher and Accuracy Reviewer: Upendra Dassanayake
Voiceover: Steve Taylor (the fantastic VO of Kurzgesagt)
Production management by Cameron Jones & Oliver Gilpin.
Footage used in this documentary comes from paid stock libraries such as Artlist, Storyblocks, and Envato. Footage from Wikimedia Commons under CC licenses was also used. We want to thank NOAA for the beautiful footage featured throughout, as well as many other sources credited directly on screen.
Sources & further reading: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q...
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This makes for excellent clips to listen to while winding down after a tough day at work, even when there's a sponsored break in the manuscript.
However, not this time.
Please don't ruin this channel.
Humanity, equality and responsibility are all apart of the future~♡
Thank you for crediting everyone who worked on the video <3
I have to agree with everyone else- please don’t do that again. I don’t use these videos to sleep to, I watch them to enjoy the lesson and information but that was really disorienting and disappointing when I know the narrator does an amazing job all the time when it comes to doing ads.
When you’ve built your channel on chill documentaries that peeps fall asleep too, it’s a terrible idea to hard cut like that.
Kinda proving the adage that Producers shouldn’t make editing nor creative decisions.
I was trying to fall asleep, now I’m annoyed and typing this.
Do with that information what you will, producers.
Maybe I’ll finish the video later.
Something Weird is Happening Beneath Antarctica’s Ice
Auralis
43,992 views
Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get 20% OFF a Lifetime subscription ➡️ Here: https://bit.ly/AuralisJuly
--
Narrated by the fantastic Steve Taylor, a real voice you may find familiar!
And with Leo Richards from @NaturalWorldFacts as a co-producer, working to make these episodes beautiful, yet deeply scientific.
Antarctica should be almost completely devoid of life. But the deeper beneath the ice we look, the stranger it gets. From microscopic ecosystems just centimetres below the surface to thriving marine worlds, ancient bacteria, and lakes sealed away for millions of years, life keeps appearing where it shouldn’t be possible. So what’s really hiding beneath Antarctica? And could the discoveries buried kilometres below the ice help us find life on other worlds?
00:00 - What’s Hiding Beneath Antarctica?
00:59 - Alien Worlds Beneath the Ice - 30cm Deep
07:06 - The Greenest Water on Earth - A Few Metres Deep
11:28 - A Lost World Beneath the Ice - 150m Deep
14:40 - The Discovery That Shouldn’t Exist - 900m Deep
19:29 - The Lake Sealed for 35 Million Years - 4km Deep
24:14 - The Ancient Viruses Trapped in Ice
28:33 - Could Life Be Hiding on an Icy Moon?
32:20 - The Deepest Point Beneath Antarctica - 4.7km Deep
35:06 - Earth’s Final Frontier
In case you are interested in helping us TRANSLATE our videos into other languages, by scripting, voiceover acting, or subtitling, please reach out! The people in your country should be able to access these nature documentaries, too! Contact us: auralis@telos.so
----------------------
Auralis is co-founded by Oliver Gilpin and Leo Richards of @NaturalWorldFacts It was formerly branded Life & The Earth / Oceans, but changed in October 2025.
The real humans who made this episode:
Co-Producer & Advisor: Leo Richards
Director of Production: Cameron Jones
Creative Director: Tyler Fleishman
Video Editor: Ignacio Garcia Castro
Animation: Matías Fernández
Sound Designer: Franco Amato
Thumbnail Artist: Tyler Fleishman
Script Writer: Julia Masselos
Script Editor: Robert Vivian
Researcher and Accuracy Reviewer: Upendra Dassanayake
Voiceover: Steve Taylor (the fantastic VO of Kurzgesagt)
Production management by Cameron Jones & Oliver Gilpin.
Footage used in this documentary comes from paid stock libraries such as Artlist, Storyblocks, and Envato. Footage from Wikimedia Commons under CC licenses was also used. We want to thank NOAA for the beautiful footage featured throughout, as well as many other sources credited directly on screen.
Sources & further reading: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q...