Discovery Beneath Antarctica: Scientists Unlock an 80-Million-Year-Old Lost World Beneath the Ice

Discovery Beneath Antarctica: Scientists Unlock an 80-Million-Year-Old Lost World Beneath the Ice

For over 34 million years, Antarctica has been buried under a massive sheet of ice. But a groundbreaking new discovery by scientists from Durham University in the UK is rewriting what we thought we knew about this frozen continent.Using radar data collected from multiple geological expeditions, researchers have uncovered a vast ancient landscape hidden beneath the ice of East Antarctica—a landscape that dates back 80 million years, long before t…

Scientists Discover a 34-Million-Year-Old Lost World Beneath 2 Kilometers of Antarctic Ice

A groundbreaking discovery has been made beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, where researchers led by Stewart Jamieson from Durham University have uncovered an ancient, river-carved landscape that has been preserved for over 34 million years. This landscape, buried under nearly two kilometers of ice, has remained untouched since long before glaciation began in Antarctica. The revelation provides an extraordinary view into the continent’s past—…