Antarctic Beauty & Death: The Brinicle

Antarctic Beauty & Death: The BrinicleVideo: Icy Finger of Death

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.