News Headline
260 million-year-old fossilised trees unveil Antarctica’s forested past before dinosaurs
Source
Indian Express
Publication Date
2017-11-13
Scientists have discovered fossil fragments of 260 million-year-old trees in Antarctica, a finding which shows that the frozen continent had a thriving forest before the first dinosaurs roamed the Earth. During Antarctica’s summer, scientists from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) in the US climbed the McIntyre Promontory’s frozen slopes in the Transantarctic Mountains.