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Top-left: A sample of the 14 million year old moss fossils found by Adam R. Lewis and Allan Ashworth. Top-right: Sand moved by water currents on a glacial outwash plain.
 This moss on the left is seen in plain light magnified under a microscope.
(Credit: Adam R. Lewis)
These fossils represent an ancient tundra and enable the researchers to determine how warm the climate was immediately before the growth of the great ice sheets of today. The fossils include pollen from the Southern Beech trees which are now foundforests in South America, New Zealand and Tasmania. Their occurrence as fossils in Antarctica can be traced back to the time when all these continents and Antarctica and India were joined together as the supercontinent Gondwana. The trees continued to live in Antarctica until the great ice sheets finally locked Antarctica in polar conditions.
Ice People Discoveries Make Worldwide Headlines
"Ice People...is an important addition to the list of documentaries—An Inconvenient Truth and The 11th Hour among them—that raise public awareness about the dangers of global warming... Highly recommended!"
Jennifer Merin, About.com, August 7, 2008
Research team advances knowledge of Antarctica's climate history
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Antarctica reveals lost world frozen 14 million years ago
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Fossils Add More Proof of Global Climate Shift
Henry Fountain, New York Times, August 5, 2008
Ancient moss, insects found in Antarctica
Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press, August 4, 2008
Antarctic Fossils Paint a Picture of a Much Warmer Continent
National Science Foundation, August 4, 2008
Ancient moss, insects found in Antarctica
International Herald Tribune, August 4, 2008
Lost world frozen 14m years ago found in Antarctica
Telegraph of London , August 4, 2008
Tiny Fossils Reveal Warm Antarctic Past
Kimberly Johnson, National Geographic News, July 25, 2008
Rare fossil discovered in Antarctic
CNN, July 24, 2008
Fossils date Dry Valleys' origin
Jonathan Amos, BBC, July 23, 2008
Crustacean Fossil Found in East Antarctica
Science Poles, July 23, 2008
Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer
ScienceDaily, July 23, 2008
Fossil Suggests Antarctica Much Warmer in Past
Andrea Thompson, Live Science, July 22, 2008
Fossil Suggests Antarctica Much Warmer in Past
Current, July 22, 2008
 Freeze-Dried Findings Support a Tale of Two Climates
Science, May 30, 2008
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 Ashworth Continues To Unravel Mysteries Of Antarctica
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Wings World Quest
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Frostbytes
A blog by Anthony Powell. Antz took us to Black Island for a few memorable days of wind-induced cabin fever, and he appears in the film!
• www.frozensouth.com >
Big Dead Place
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Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - APECS
An international and interdisciplinary organization for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early faculty members and educators with interests in polar regions and the cryosphere.
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Antarctic bloggers
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International Polar Foundation
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