Location matters, as Antarctica may have served as a refuge ... But modern birds are exceptionally rare before the end-Cretaceous extinction, and more recent studies have cast doubt on the ...

The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to that of today. For example, temperate rainforest grew close to the poles, which back then were ice free. 'We have evidence from West Antarctica ...

Amber was found in western Antarctica, revealing fossilized tree resin over 40,000 years old, providing a new glimpse into the continent’s verdant past. (Source: Alfred Wegener Institute ...

Insights Into Forest Fires and Ecosystem Dynamics The mid-Cretaceous forests of Antarctica, though lush, were not immune to ...

Antarctica is now a harsh land of ice and ... the Pine Island Glacier dated to about 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period when dinosaurs were the dominant land animals.

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old ... of a fossil-bearing concretion discovered on Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula.

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Disclaimer ...

At that time, Antarctica was not the home of snow and ... were connected around 20 million years later, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when the mass extinction of dinosaurs occurred.

Two recent papers take opposing sides: Galeotti and coauthors 1 argue for the growth and decay of small Antarctic ice sheets during the Cretaceous period (144 to 65 Myr ago), whereas Ando and ...