"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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