Word: antarctica
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...evidence: geological strata in South America that matched those of West Africa in areas where the continents might have been joined; fossils of plants and animals from one continent that were identical to those on another, even though they are separated by thousands of miles of ocean. Just off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, for example, an Ohio State University expedition recently discovered the fossilized bones of a hippopotamus-like reptile called Lystro-saurus that had been thought to live only in prehistoric South Africa and Asia...