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Snow seen glowing after tiny animals wash ashore for first time in 80 years

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microbiologist working in some of the most remote parts of Russia, off the coast of the White Sea, and spotted faint blue lights glowing in the snow.

She collected some of the snow, placed it under a microscope and found that the glow was from tiny bioluminescent animals called copepods – with this particular species called Metridia Ionga, the Daily Mail reports.

Dubbed the 'bugs of the sea', these creatures are typically found in the ocean at depths of up to 300ft during the day and then just a few feet at night.

Ksenia Kosobokova, an expert on Arctic marine zooplankton at Russia's Academy of Science in Moscow, told National Geographic that the copepods were likely caught in a powerful current in the White Sea that brought them ashore..

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