telegraph.co.uk — A lost world has been found in Antarctica, preserved just the way it was when it was frozen in time some 14 million years ago. The fossils of plants and animals high in the mountains is an extremely rare find in the continent, one that also gives a glimpse of a what could be there in a century or two as the planet warms.
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atmenterprisesAug 5, 2008
Yes. Global warming causes more ice now!Is this why it's called climate change now and not global warming?
smokedlAug 5, 2008
@atmenterprises I realize that expecting deniers to actually read, or - god for forbid - attempt to understand, lengthy scientific articles is wishful thinking. Failing to read and understand the two sentences in my post though, that's just sad.
cwcentralAug 5, 2008
Of course the humans/animals back then were likely saying:"d*mn global cooling..."
hockeyplayer66Aug 6, 2008
Holly! Look out the sleestaks are coming!
eir574Aug 6, 2008
Also, a lack of "significant changes in the details of their appearances" doesn't mean that there are no differences under the hood.
eir574Aug 6, 2008
I'd say there could even be mutations that aren't neutral. A change in an organism's immune system, for instance, will not necessarily be reflected in its appearance.
specializedoneAug 6, 2008
That "viral storage" thing doesn't hold water in my opinion. A virus is extremely specific in how and what it infects. 14 million years of evolution would be a significant change in what the virus considers its host. Second, there would need to be large scale immigration of the proper host, as well as large scale emmigration, in order to get to anything that could be considered epidemic.