Guest Nicholas Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Antarctic Fossils!!! Find the article HERE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Interesting, cheers. KOF, Bill. Welcome to the forum, all new members www.ukfossils check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2gould Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Cool - it would be great to be on one of those expeditions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Freeze-dried Miocene fossils! Very, very cool. I have to call into question one statement,though, from the end of the story: "The ability to artificially rehydrate the organisms suggests that they were never been naturally rehydrated. In other words, in 14 million years the site never warmed enough to thaw the specimens." Why could they not have gone through many cycles of thawing and freeze-drying? To propose that these leaves are literally the "last ones ever" implies an impossibly abrupt climate change. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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