Ten abandoned V-1 flying bombs in the Baltic Sea have become home to fish, crab, sea anemones and plenty of starfishes

Paris — Marine life is thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs sitting at the bottom of a German bay, a submersible has discovered, even capturing footage of starfishes creeping across a huge chunk of TNT.

The discovery, which was revealed in a study published Thursday, was “one of those rare but remarkable eureka moments,” marine biologist Andrey Vedenin told AFP.

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The waters off Germany’s coast are estimated to be littered with 1.6 million tons of unexploded munitions left behind from both world wars.

In October last year, a team of German scientists went to a previously uncharted dump site in the Baltic Sea’s Luebeck Bay and sent an unmanned submersible

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