Antarctica once had a rainforest just 900 km from the South Pole. Fossil roots reveal how warm it was 90 million years ago

A sediment core pulled from the seabed off West Antarctica has preserved evidence of a forest that grew near the South Pole about 90 million years ago, when the continent was warm enough to support a ...
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First-ever amber discovery in Antarctica reveals lost prehistoric rainforest

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica's first amber reveals a 90-million-year-old conifer rainforest that once grew near the South Pole. (CREDIT: DeviantArt) ...

Before the ice, Antarctica had a rainforest near South Pole: Fossils reveal a 90-million-year-old secret

Scientists have uncovered remarkable evidence of a rainforest that flourished in Antarctica nearly 90 million years ago, despite the region experiencing months without sunlight each year. Fossilised ...
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Antarctica was home to a rainforest 90 million years ago

A team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany and scientists from Imperial College London, UK. have discovered ...
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First-ever amber discovery in Antarctica reveals lost prehistoric rainforest

Amber usually brings to mind tropical forests, trapped insects, and warm landscapes. That is what makes the new Antarctic find so striking. Buried beneath the Amundsen Sea, tiny resin fragments now ...