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Glossopteris fossils
Piecing together evidence from fossils found in a sea cliff outside Sydney and rocks recovered from Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, Professor Stewart shows that Gondwana was covered by a vast forest of now extinct trees called glossopteris.
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