Tiny clues indicate Antarctica was once covered by thick rainforest, unlike anything modern humans could imagine. Find out more.

Stunningly preserved fossils of reptilian footprints and underbellies discovered last year in the Italian Alps have helped ...

But when he revisited the peculiar fossil described in the new study in late 2022, Cai noticed the well-preserved light organ, a characteristic of fireflies ... an amateur collector who had donated ...

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

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A search for dinosaur fossils unintentionally shifted into a discovery of the oldest tadpole ever discovered when a team ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

For the first time, amber fragments have been recovered from Antarctica, or, to be more specific, from an offshore ...

The researchers previously found that a layer of mudstone in the area was ‘rich’ in microscopic fossils of spores or pollen ...

The discovery of amber in Antarctica has been reported for the first time, as detailed in a recent study published in ...

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 ...

This amber preserved traces of resin produced by trees as a protective barrier, indicating that the forest faced challenges from parasites or fires. Additionally, the quality of the amber—solid ...