The fossils, footprints and other traces can provide important information about the environments that ancient animals frequented, as well as their distribution and displacement. The fossil record of Antarctica, however, continues to be quite scarce, especially with regard to terrestrial mammals that inhabited the continent in the past. In a new study, published last month in Polar Biology, researchers describe a set of fossil impressions of abo…
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The fossils, footprints and other traces can provide important information about the environments that ancient animals frequented, as well as their distribution and displacement. The fossil record of Antarctica, however, continues to be quite scarce, especially with regard to terrestrial mammals that inhabited the continent in the past. In a new study, published last month in Polar Biology, researchers describe a set of fossil impressions of abo…