Happy Tuesday! Today's Science Solutions blog entry is to explain, in our own words, why temperate climate fossils have been found in Antarctica.
We're not specifically learning about this right now, but it is related to evolution and geology both. To answer the prompt, fossils from certain climates have been found in radically different ones because of plate tectonics and separations. A long time ago, all of the continents were one mass called Pangaea. Several million years ago, Pangaea began to spread apart. A very long time later the continents eventually separated into the seven current ones. Animals existed and evolved during the periods of continental mass, but did not survive and eventually evolved and adapted to their new climates. The ice ages froze the earth over and made climates colder as they pushed further and further apart.
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We're not specifically learning about this right now, but it is related to evolution and geology both. To answer the prompt, fossils from certain climates have been found in radically different ones because of plate tectonics and separations. A long time ago, all of the continents were one mass called Pangaea. Several million years ago, Pangaea began to spread apart. A very long time later the continents eventually separated into the seven current ones. Animals existed and evolved during the periods of continental mass, but did not survive and eventually evolved and adapted to their new climates. The ice ages froze the earth over and made climates colder as they pushed further and further apart.
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