Mike Heath

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look for fossil fish near the poles, the movement of the continents during Earth’s history means that rocks that formed near the equator millions of years ago can now be found at high northern and southern latitudes. After my colleagues and I discovered the fishapod—a 375-million-year-old fish with arms and legs—in rocks in the Canadian Arctic in 2004, we later found scientific papers attesting to similar rocks in Antarctica.
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
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