tundra plants

Antarctic Fossils Paint a Picture of a Much Warmer Continent

NSF News  Mon, 08/04/2008 - 16:15

Sketches of fossils.

National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began a relentless drop millions of years ago.