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"This is very definitely a case of hopping across long distances of ocean." Exactly how the plants travelled north from Antarctica isn't clear, the authors say. It may be that wind carried their seeds, or that ocean birds transported them from island to island. "Perhaps the seeds get caught up in the feathers of these birds when they're nesting and then get carried off and dumped somewhere else," Quinn says.
Maybe the 2+ million year old beech tree fossils found in Antarctica -- but carried by the winds from elsewhere -- dislodged the seeds upon impact, and they hurtled across the sea.
 
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12 posted on 03/28/2008 8:08:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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Maybe the 2+ million year old beech tree fossils found in Antarctica -- but carried by the winds from elsewhere -- dislodged the seeds upon impact, and they hurtled across the sea.

It wuz the Flood, it wuz...

16 posted on 03/28/2008 9:08:43 AM PDT by null and void (It's 3 AM, do you know where Hillary is? Does she know where Bill is? Does Bill know what 'is' is?)
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