Atlas Obscura mentioned a 2006 University of Maine study in its story, “The Canadian Arctic Once Probably Looked a Lot Like Present-Day Florida.” Ellesmere Island, just north of Greenland, has musk oxen, hares, brown grasses and shrubs. But about 56 million to 34 million years ago, the landscape was totally different, according to the article.
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