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Before the start of the Eocene Epoch about 56 million years agoAntarctica was still joined to both Australia and South America. And it turns out that a lot of what we recognize about the southern hemisphere can be traced back to that time when Antarctica was green.

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Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the Notiolofos and Antarctodon illustrations! Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at   / alphynix  

And thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the Antarctodolops illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/juliolacerda

And thanks to John Long for allowing us to use of images of Devonian plants from his paper with S. McLoughlin: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

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