MercoPress2 年
Penguin fossil trails shed light on continent's separation from Antarctica
Researchers from Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) came up with penguin fossil indicators of a historical separation between Antarctica and South America ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs1 个月
66 million years ago, Antarctica was lush, temperate, and home to the oldest modern bird ...
A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature. 66 million years ago ...
BBC16 年
The Southern Ocean - Sea caves and fossils, Waterfall Bay
The remarkable thing about the fossils found here is that they are exactly the same as specimens found in Antarctica. This suggests that Antarctica and Tasmania were once parts of the same land mass.