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Nature Secrets Of Antarctica's Fossilized Forests
It may be hard to believe, but Antarctica was once covered in towering forests. One hundred million years ago, the Earth was in the grip of an extreme Greenhouse Effect. The polar ice caps had all but melted and rainforests inhabited by dinosaurs existed in their place. These Antarctic...- Tejwant Singh
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SciTech Tourists Mimic Polar Pioneers, Except With Planes And Blogs
When the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find that he had been beaten there by Roald Amundsen and his team of Norwegians, he was despondent. “Great God! This is an awful place,” he lamented in his diary. Awful as it may be, it is about to get a lot of foot...- spnadmin
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