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ANCIENT ANTARCTIC RAINFOREST
Before the ice, Antarctica had a rainforest near South Pole: Fossils reveal a 90-million-year-old secret- 90 million years ago, Antarctica had a temperate forest just 900 kilometers from the South Pole despite months of darkness. 90 million years later, scientists found its roots, pollen and spores preserved in seafloor sediment beneath today's frozen continent
- Scientists thought this ancient ice sheet was stable until buried fossils revealed a lost forest beneath Antarctica
- A Rainforest Once Covered West Antarctica: Sediment Cores Reveal How It VanishedAstonishingly, dense temperate rainforests once flourished near the South Pole 90 million years ago. Fossil evidence from seabed cores reve...01 Mar, 2026, 11.09 PM IST
- Scientists discover river system that flowed 40 million years under ice in AntarcticaGeologists have discovered an old river that formerly flowed through Antarctica but is now buried below kilometers of ice.22 Jun, 2024, 07.52 PM IST
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