{"id":4419,"date":"2020-04-05T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2020-04-05T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T21:57:12","slug":"scientists-discover-antartica-had-a-lush-rainforest-90-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4419","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover Antartica had a lush rainforest 90 million years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/01\/scientists-discover-antartica-had-a-lush-rainforest-90-million-years-ago\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/04\/anarctica-rainforest-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of West Antarctica and large areas of East Antarctica were once covered in rainforest, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s icy wasteland would\u2019ve once played host to huge amounts of plant-life \u2013 during an unusually toasty period in history 90 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence for the rainforest suggests the climate was \u201cexceptionally warm.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How did it get so warm without mankind emitting CO2?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/lifestyle\/tech\/621896\/antarctica-rainforest-map-ice-warm-cretaceous-dinosaurs\/\">Scientists discover Antartica had a lush rainforest 90 million years<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of West Antarctica and large areas of East Antarctica were once covered in rainforest, scientists say. Today\u2019s icy wasteland would\u2019ve once played host to huge amounts of plant-life \u2013 during an unusually toasty period in history 90 million years ago. Evidence for the rainforest suggests the climate was \u201cexceptionally warm.\u201d How did it get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists discover Antartica had a lush rainforest 90 million years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climateastrology","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}