nature video | An ancient Antarctic rainforest @NatureVideoChannel | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
An expedition drilling into the sea-floor near the South Pole has discovered the root network of an ancient forest. It reveals surprisingly high temperatures in the Antarctic during the Cretaceous period, and the existence of a rich, temperate rainforest just 900km from the Pole.

Read the research here: nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5

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