The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric ...

Ancient amber found in Antarctica uncovers a 90-million-year-old rainforest, revealing insights into its warm, prehistoric ...

Amber discovered in the southernmost region provides fresh insights into Cretaceous forests near the South Pole.

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

For the first time, scientists have uncovered amber in Antarctica, a groundbreaking discovery that sheds light on the ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.

German researchers found amber in Antarctica for the first time, proving it had trees 90 million years ago. In 2017, the ...

Scientists have discovered the first-ever sample of fossilized tree resin, known as amber, on Earth's southernmost continent ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered amber on the Antarctic continent, filling a major gap in the global map of ...

More information: Marc A. Mapalo et al, Cretaceous amber inclusions illuminate the evolutionary origin of tardigrades, ...