Antarctica had a warmer past.

USA Today (Magazine) | June 1, 1993 | Copyright

Remains of a 260,000,000-year-old forest of deciduous trees have been found in a region of Antarctica 400 miles from the South Pole. The discovery of fossilized stumps of Glossopteris, a seed fern now extinct, supports the view that during the Permian period - years 250-280,000,000 ago - Antarctica had a climate much warmer than it does today, according to Edith Taylor, a research scientist with Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center.

Deciduous trees - trees that lose their leaves yearly - grow in temperate climes. The remains Taylor studied, found on a ridge of ...

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