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News Release 15-047
Video: Research team discovers plant fossils previously unknown to Antarctica
NSF-funded team also finds the second prehistoric fossil forest discovered on the continent
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Paleobotanists discover new plant fossils in Antarctica.
Credit: Peter Rejcek and Ralph Maestas/NSF
Erik Gulbranson, a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, working in the Antarctic.
Credit: Peter Rejcek, NSF
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