Discovery of fossilized stumps of deciduous trees in Antarctica indicates that Antarctica had a much warmer climate in the Permian period. The lack of frost rings in stump samples suggests that there were no hard frosts during their growing period.
Remains of a 260,000,000-year-old forest of deciduous trees have been found in a region of Antarctica 400 miles from the South Pole. The discovery of fossilized stumps of Glossopteris, a seed fern now extinct, supports the view that during the Permian period - years 250-280,000,000 ago -Antarctica had a climate much warmer than it does today, according to Edith Taylor, a research scientist with Ohio State University's Byrd Polar ...
