ANTARCTICA BEFORE THE ICE
Movies & Documentaries • 10m
The recent discovery of fossilized trees dating back more than 260 million years has shocked the scientific community. Together with other recently discovered fossilized plant and tree discoveries on Antarctica these finds suggests something that should not be - that the world’s coldest, driest continent was once green and forested. Amongst other things, scientists have had to come up with an explanation of how trees were able to survive within a few degrees of latitude of the South Pole itself, where it is dark for six months of the year. But what does this all mean for scientific theories about Antarctica? Will they have to be changed?
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