A discovery that shows life 90 million years ago near the South Pole may also point to what lies ahead
Using evidence from the core sample, this painting hypothesizes what the now-frozen South Pole might have looked like 90 million years ago
The finding suggests the climate of that time—known as the mid-Cretaceous period, about 25 million years before dinosaurs died out—was more extreme than scientists had imagined. “Anything we can understand about this is going to help us understand our future; this is what warmer worlds look like,” he says. “And that’s the path we’re on.”
They opted to explore near the very underside of the planet, off the continental shelf of western Antarctica in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, where two huge glacier systems, the Thwaites and Pine Island, are in the throes of alarmingly rapid retreat.
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