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Before becoming frozen wasteland, Antarctica was home to frogs

When paleontologist Thomas Mörs was peering into a microscope while sorting through tiny 40 million-year-old fossils unearthed on Seymour Island near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, he came across quite a surprise - hip and skull bones of a frog. [Source]

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Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/8WNtEQHE_nM/before-becoming-frozen-wasteland-antarctica-was-home-to-frogs-idUSKCN22639C

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