Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

A paper was published whose authors describe what they found on the seabed near the Antarctic coast - in fossils 90 million years old there were traces of roots tightly interwoven with each other, as well as pollen, spores and the remains of flowering plants of the Cretaceous period. Judging by these findings, in the west of Antarctica at that time a rather dense swampy forest grew, similar to the forests of New Zealand; the air temperature in summer was on average about 19 ° C (annual average - about 12 ° C), and the water in rivers and swamps was heated to 20 ° C; torrential rains often. But regarding the then tropics in Antarctica it was still cold - it is believed that seawater at tropical latitudes in the Cretaceous was heated to 35 ° C.

“Nature”