Paleo-wildfires in Antarctica

The illustration is a drawing of a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Antactica in the middle of a large wildfire. There are several dinosaurs, a volcano at the background, and a lot of gimnosperm trunks involved in large yellow and orange flames.

Researchers Taissa Rodrigues and Rodrigo Figueiredo coauthored a work that described evidence of wildfires in Antarctica during the Late Cretaceous. Click here here for a news piece and here to read the open-access paper.

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