Fossil Pollen (IMAGE)

Rice University

Fossil Pollen

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Researchers ascertained the exact species of plants that existed on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 36 million years during a three-year examination of thousands of grains of fossilized pollen, including this grain from the tree Nothofagus fusca.

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S. Warny/LSU

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