SYDNEY, March 12 (UPI) -- Australian researchers say they found evidence that shows heat and steam from volcanoes helped some plants and animals survive the ice age.
A team led by Dr. Ceridwen Fraser from the Australian National University and Dr. Aleks Terauds from the Australian Antarctic Division studied tens of thousands of records of Antarctic species and found that there were more species of plants and animals that lived near to volcanoes than those that lived further away, the researchers said in their report released Monday.