What did Antarctica use to look like back when Dinosaurs walked the Earth?

Answer 1

Coal deposits have been found in Antarctica.

As you know, coal forms from the decay of large amounts of organic material, buried under sediment, for many years. For such coal deposits to be formed, there would have had to have been a large variety of plant and animal life there.

This demonstrates rather convincingly that Antarctia once had at least a moderate climate. Plate tectonics prove that Antarctica is moving (There IS solid land underneath all of that ice), and the rate of movement shows that in the past, it would have been closer to the equator.

Answer 2

If you want to know the map shapes, see answer 3. For a summary of the environments-read on:
Triassic: At the beginning of the Triassic, some scientists have suggested that a migration of vertebrates from southern Africa into the higher latitudes of Antarctica supports hypotheses that the earth was suffering from runaway greenhouse warming at that time. By mid Triassic, there was evidence for streams, seasonally waterlogged lowlands with tetrapods (herbivores and carnivores)-similar to South African forms, and horsetail plants. Southern Victoria land was at high latitudes in Middle Triassic, but it had a surprisingly temperate climate something like southern Sweden..based on fossils of "roots, logs, and leaves of woody plants and the degree of chemical weathering and clay formation within the paleosols;"peat, coastal deposits; humid and seasonally snowy.
Jurassic highlights: dinosaurs and beetles, trees and forests, volcanism associated with breakup of Gondwana
Cretaceous highlights: convincing evidence of polar warmth during the Cretaceous--from fossils of deciduous trees, champsosaurs (relative of crocodles), more dinosaurs including a plesiosaur, isotope studies of microfossils in surrounding seas. High sea levels mean that seaways covered West Antarctica, and parts of East Antarctica. Elsewhere on the continent, at times, there was uplift and erosion of mountain ranges.

Answer 3

"When dinosaurs walked the Earth" is a long period.
About 180 million years ago, Antartica was attached to the south side of Australia, the east side of India (yes! India) and the south east tip of Africa. Most of the portion that became Antarctica was still south of the antarctic circle (latitude 66.6 South).

The site below gives an animation that you can control (the number of millions of year in the past is indicated). However, it takes a long time to download (took five minutes on my extra-fast machine).

Answer 4

IT was like las vegas. the dinosaurs would go there to get away from the stress of ordinary life and gamble.

Answer 5

Like Las Vegas !

Answer 6

It was in a different location,They found fossilized tropical plants there