“It was very exciting to realize that at some point in their history, all seven continents had climatic conditions allowing resin-producing trees to survive.”Antarctic RainforestScientists have discovered amber in a sediment core recovered thousands of feet below the surface of the Antarctic, a baffling finding that could indicate the existence of an ancient temperate rainforest in the now-frozen region dating back to the Cretaceous Period around 90 million years ago.In a new paper published in the journal Antarctic Science, a team led by Alfred Wegener Institute ice and climate history…
