Fossils Reveal Polar Forests

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Fossils from lush 53 million-year-old South Pole rainforest discovered in Tasmania

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New fossils reveal how tropical plants from the polar forest traveled north as the continents drifted apart, seeding rainforests that still exist today .

Researchers excavated more than 400 plant fossils and analyzed them in the lab using advanced microscopes and ultraviolet photography.

Most of these were ancestors of flora still found today in Australia , New Zealand and South America .

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