Professor David Cantrill

Executive Director Science, Royal Botanic Gardens; Chief Botanist and Director, National Herbarium, Australia; School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

Fossil forests under Antarctic ice

Recently described fossils are the most diverse yet of forests that grew in Antarctica around 56 million years ago, providing valuable information about Earth’s past and future climate

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