Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below ...
But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments of an ancient rainforest that covered the South Pole during the Cretaceous period.
Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent ...
Everything we thought we knew about theicy continent could be shattered by a stunning discovery in Antarctica. Scientists in ...
Scientists have discovered the first-ever sample of fossilized tree resin, known as amber, on Earth's southernmost continent ...
Ancient amber found in Antarctica uncovers a 90-million-year-old rainforest, revealing insights into its warm, prehistoric climate.
Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / V. Schumacher For the first time, researchers have discovered a piece of fossilized resin, or amber, in Antarctica. The tiny golden fragment, unearthed beneath ...
Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...
Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...
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