Scientists discovered a dinosaur tail preserved in amber, revealing soft tissue, feathers, and clues leading to an incredible theory.

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below ...

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 ...

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

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar ... the peculiar fossil ...

But when he revisited the peculiar fossil described in the new study in late 2022, Cai noticed the well-preserved light organ ... who had donated several other amber specimens to the authors ...

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

Until now, amber fossils had been found on every one of Earth's continents, except for Antarctica. But in the new study, published Tuesday (Nov. 12) in the journal Antarctic Science, researchers ...

But when he revisited the peculiar fossil described in the new study in late 2022, Cai noticed the well-preserved light organ ... who had donated several other amber specimens to the authors ...

The discovery of fossilised plant 'blood' - once prized as a gemstone - shows what lived on the continent before it was all ...