"It probably was (a tropical paradise) but the mosquitoes were probably the size of your head," said Yale geology professor Mark Pagani, a study co-author.
No. No one would ever call Northern Minnesota a "tropical paradise."
And anyway he'd be talking about the baby mosquitoes there, the ones the size of your head. Unless, of course, you have an unusually big head.
No, the article's about what the Arctic region might have been like during an episode of global warming 55 million years ago. Which was before Northern Minnesota was invented. They couldn't have invented Northern Minnesota until after they invented fur-lined boots.
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