Antarctica Was a Lush Rainforest 90M Years Ago, Scientists Discover

It is far from what you could imagine.

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The story of this ancient Antarctic rainforest is written in sediment buried 25 meters under the seafloor off Pine Island Glacier, according to a study published on Wednesday in Nature. The fossils preserved in an ultra-rare core represent the first glimpse of Cretaceous ecosystems at latitudes this far south, just 500 miles from the South Pole.

Read more and check out the research in Nature.