Thursday, 16 November 2017

Antarctica Was Once Covered in Forests. We Just Found One That Fossilized.

Antarctica Was Once Covered in Forests. We Just Found One That Fossilized.

It was summer in Antarctica, and Erik Gulbranson and John Isbell were on the hunt. Bundled up in parkas to brave negative temperatures, fierce winds, and blinding days of 24-hour sunlight, Gulbranson, Isbell, and an international team of researchers searched for fossil fragments. Between November 2016 and January 2017, they scaled the snow-capped slopes of the McIntyre Promontory high above the ice fields and glaciers, sifting through the Transantarctic Mountain's gray sedimentary rocks for clues.

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