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

Scientists have discovered amber in the sediment core recovered from thousands of feet below the surface of the Antarctic, a ...

Northeastern Australia, once submerged under the Eromanga Sea during the Cretaceous, was home to massive pterosaurs. In 2021, ...

Everything we thought we knew about theicy continent could be shattered by a stunning discovery in Antarctica. Scientists in ...

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

Atmospheric carbon dioxide was high in the Cretaceous, making the world in general a warmer place. Moreover, the lack of an ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Around 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees, allowing them to grow ...