Pollen from both environments indicates that temperatures on Antarctica reached up to 21C in summer and were warmer than 10°C even during the coldest and darkest months of the year.

Scientists drilling deep into the edge of modern Antarctica have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there. Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a ...

The last remnant of vegetation in Antarctica vanished about 12 million years ago, suggests a new study of tiny pollen fossils buried deep beneath the seafloor. That last bit of plant life existed in a ...

In fact, pollen from palm trees has previously been found along the nearby Antarctic coast, providing striking evidence of a once-lush environment.

Lodged in ocean sediment nearly 20 million years old, ancient pollen and leaf wax samples taken from the Ross Ice Shelf suggest that two brief warming spells, each of which lasted less than 30,000 ...

Palm trees could grow in the Antarctic -- just as they did 55 million years ago -- if climate change continues unabated, new research has shown.

Palm trees swayed on the green shores of Antarctica 50 million years ago while temperatures soared above 20C, a study has shown. The discovery provides a startling glimpse of what might be in ...

With the sediment came pollen grains from palm trees and relatives of the modern baobab and macadamia. Crucially, they contained also the remnants of tiny single-celled organisms called Archaea.