How would plant fossils be found in Antarctica? If you think about it, it is really cold over there and there is like no sunlight over there. So how would you find plant fossils over there? These fossils were found there because Antarctica used to have tropical weather over there. We have been learning about Earth's past and learned that some places were really different back then. 

    If you think about it, back then the Earth was really different. Antarctica had different weather and climate. The tropical weather made plants survive there. The plant fossils could have been preserved in ice because fossils can be preserved in ice. Those fossils could be really old. We have learned about how fossils could be preserved and one of them was that fossils could be preserved in ice.



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