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This is an archive article published on August 6, 2008

Lost world 145;found146; in Antarctica

Scientists have discovered a lost world in Antarctica, which they claim is preserved exactly the same way when it was frozen some 14 million years ago.

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Scientists have discovered a lost world in Antarctica, which they claim is preserved exactly the same way when it was frozen some 14 million years ago.

In their study, the international team of scientists have combined evidence from glaciers from the preserved ecology, volcanic ashes and modelling to reveal the full extent of the big freeze in part of the southernmost continent called the Dry Valleys.

According to them, the lost world is an extremely rare find in the continent, one that also provides an insight into what could be there in a century or two as the planet warms, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Lead researcher Professor Adam Lewis of North Dakota State University said, 8220;The discovery of lake deposits with perfectly preserved fossils of mosses, diatoms and minute crustacea called ostracods is particularly exciting.8221;

8220;They are the first to be found even though scientific expeditions have been visiting the Dry Valleys since they were discovered during the first Scott expedition in 1902-1903.8221;

 

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