That's not fast enough for me, I'm looking for ancient references to historical observances of a change in Earth's orbit...I want witnesses!
"...The annals of the 'Bamboo Books' obviously refer to the same event when they inform us that in the tenth year of the Emperor Kwei (the seventeenth emperor of the Dynasty Yu, or the eighteenth since Yahou) "the five planets went out of their courses. In the night, stars fell like rain. The earth shook."
I want a good, old fashioned Catastrophe!
Now as for Antarctica:
FOSSILS FOUND IN ANTARCTICA Names followed by an asterisk (*) are not dinos, but other interesting fossils Underlined names are links to information sheets. Names in quotation marks are unofficial.
an unnamed Theropod A bipedal, meat-eating dinosaur (a theropod) was discovered by Judd Case, James Martin and their team on James Ross Island in late 2003. Fossils found include lower leg and foot bones, fragments of the upper jaw, and some teeth. The dinosaur was about 1.8 to 2.4 meters (6 to 8 feet) tall. This Cretaceous period dinosaur lived about 70 million years ago, towards the end of the Mesozoic Era.
an unnamed Sauropod A bipedal, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur (a sauropod) was discovered in the Antarctic interior by William R. Hammer and his team in late 2003. Fossils found include the pelvis (a hip bone 3 meters wide) with the ilium (one of a dinosaur's hip bones). The dinosaur was over 9 meters (30 feet) long. This Jurassic period dinosaur lived about 200 million years ago.
a Nodosaurid Ankylosaur An armored, quadrupedal, plant eating late Cretaceous period dinosaur was discovered in 1986 on James Ross Island (Olivero, E., Scasso, R. and C. Rinaldi ). This was the first dinosaur found in Antarctica. Cryolophosaurus
A crested meat-eater (a theropod dinosaur) about 20 ft (8 m) long from the early Jurassic period. It was found in 1994 by Hammer, William R. and W. J. Hickerson. an unnamed hadrosaur
A duck-billed, bipedal, plant eating dinosaur was discovered by Jim Martin of the Museum of Geology in South Dakota, USA on Vega and Seymour Islands in early 1998.
a Hypsilophodontid a plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period was found on the Lopez de Bertodano Formation on Vega Island in 1991 (Hooker, J.J., Milner, A.C. and S.E.K. Sequeira ).
an unnamed iguanodontid A 12 foot (4 m) long bipedal, plant eating iguanodontid dinosaur was discovered in February, 1999 on a rocky beach of James Ross Island. unnamed Plateosaurid prosauropods - plant eating dinosaurs from the early Jurassic period. Lystrosaurus*
a small dicynodont, an herbivorous mammal-like reptile (not a dinosaur)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/locations/Antarctica.shtml
Prehistoric Tree Bark
fossil stump
Geologists have discovered in Antarctica the remains of three ancient deciduous forests complete with fossils of fallen leafs scattered around the tree trunks. The clusters of petrified tree stumps were found upright in the original living positions they held during the Permian period...
They lived at a time when the Antarctic climate was much warmer — although the trees still had to survive an extreme light regime of low sunlight half the year and darkness the other half...
(My bold.Strikes me as somewhat contradictory.)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041101/leaves.html