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 ...

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

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

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 ...

For the first time in history, scientists have found amber fragments in Antarctica, thus closing one of the few remaining ...

Most commonly, fossils of harder parts of an organism, like bones, teeth, shells, and wood end up getting preserved, because ...

The leading hypothesis for the exceptional preservation had been sudden burial by volcanism; however, the study suggests that the fossils were preserved over a relatively short period under stable ...