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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 19:18 UTC

Tag: seafloor

  • Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 07:55 UTC

    Antarctica some 90 million years ago was a temperate, swampy rainforest

    The sediment core obtained by the RV Polarstern in the Amundsen Sea near the Pine Island Glacier dated to about 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period

    Antarctica is now a harsh land of ice and snow but has not always been that way. Earth's southernmost continent long ago was home to temperate, swampy rainforests teeming with life, scientists said on Wednesday based on pristinely preserved forest soil they retrieved by drilling under the seafloor off Antarctica's coast.