TEMPERATE CLIMATES AT THE POLESThe New Siberian Islands (north of the Siberian Arctic mainland) have yielded an abundance of fossils (mammoth, woolly rhinos, musk ox, antelope, deer, bear, horse and more than 50 other species), requiring forests and meadows to sustain them. Embedded in Arctic muck are a large number of mammals that have been frozen before they could decay. Recently a completely preserved frozen woolly mammoth was excavated. In Alaska, duck-billed dinosaurs, turtles, conifers, herbaceous vegetation, and broad-leaved trees bear testimony to a tropical environment that once existed. Dr. Jack Wolfe in a 1978 U.S. Geological Survey Report submitted evidence of tropical vegetation in Alaska: mangrove, palm trees, Burmese laquer trees and others. (cited in Dillow, Joseph, The Waters Above, 1982 p. 348.) In 1998 a champosaur, an extinct subtropical crocodilian, and turtles were discovered in the Queen Elizabeth Islands in arctic Canada. Obviously such a reptilian was not mobile enough to migrate. This would require a temperature range of 25º to 35º for an area that currently sees temperatures of -45º degrees. (Oard, Michael, "A Tropical Reptile in the ‘Cretaceous’ Arctic," CEN Technical Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, 2000, p. 9.) Even evolutionists concede that tectonic plate movement has a hard time accounting for evidence like the metasequoias in-situ growth at Axel Hieberg (picture to the right taken from "Our ’Tropical' Arctic," Canadian Geographic, Vol. 106 no. 6 Dec./Jan. 1987, pp. 28-37.) In 1998 a champosaur, an extinct subtropical crocodilian, and turtles were discovered in the Queen Elizabeth Islands in arctic Canada. Obviously such a reptilian was not mobile enough to migrate. This would require a temperature range of 25º to 35º for an area that currently sees temperatures of -45º degrees. (Oard, Michael, "A Tropical Reptile in the ‘Cretaceous’ Arctic," CEN Technical Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, 2000, p. 9.) A similar "lost world" is frozen in place at the South Pole. The geologist, Peter Barret, was one of the first to look for fossils in Antarctica. He discovered an amphibian jaw belonging to a creature that could only have survived in a warm, damp environment. Various paleontologists have followed his lead. Thirteen thousand feet up Mt. Kirkpatrick in Antarctica (400 miles from the Pole) pterosaurs, carnivorous theropods, and many other creatures have been found. Dr. Duane Gish asks a pertinent question How could animals like dinosaurs, flying reptiles, and turtles survive alongside ferns and conifers in areas with very low temperature and months of darkness? (Evolution: The Fossils Stills Say No!, 1995 p. 127) Obviously, there was a dramatically different climate at the poles. "The discovery of thousands of well-preserved leaves in Antarctica has sparked a debate among geologists over whether the polar region, rather than being blanketed by a massive sheet of ice for millions of years enjoyed a near-temperate climate as recently as three million years ago." (Raymond, Chris, "Discovery of Leaves in Antarctica Sparks Debate over Whether Region Had Near-Temperate Climate," Chronicle of Higher Education, March,1991, p. A9, as cited in Morris, 1997, p. 273)