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The Largest Amber Preserved Flower Is Roughly 40-Million-Years-Old, And It's Not A Species That Exists Today
The largest fossilized flower ever recorded has been officially identified as part of the genus Symplocos, a flowering ...
“Antarctica’s icy secret’: Amber proves Earth’s frozen south was actually a rainforest!
Amber from Antarctica reveals a 90-million-year-old rainforest, transforming its frozen image into a verdant past of swampy forests, roots, and life-rich ecosystems.
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Amber & Poland: A History Crafted in Resin
Amber, the fossilised tree resin, is often known as ‘The Gold of the North’ or the ‘Gem of the Baltic’, because of its beautiful colour. According to the first Polish monograph devoted to it, the 1833 ...
First-Ever Amber Found in Antarctica Unlocks Secrets of Cretaceous Rainforest
Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...
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90-million-year-old amber reveals Antarctica's secret past
Ancient amber found in Antarctica uncovers a 90-million-year-old rainforest, revealing insights into its warm, prehistoric ...
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'Another piece of the puzzle': Antarctica's 1st-ever amber fossil sheds light on dinosaur-era rainforest that covered South Pole 90 million years ago
Amber is fossilized resin, or tree sap, that can trap plants, insects, small animals or other organic matter with it as it ...
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Stories in the Amber
This is a petal from the flower of the now-extinct species of algarrobo tree whose resin was the source of all Dominican amber. Without this single species of tree, the fabulously rich community ...
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A Tiny Amphibian Trapped in Amber Is a New Species
The salamander managed to escape but then must have fallen into a pool of tree resin, which preserved the tiny amphibian as it hardened into amber. George Poinar, Jr., a biologist at Oregon State ...
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90-million-year-old amber discovered in Antarctica reveals secrets of ancient forest
It reveals that this icy expanse once supported resin-producing trees and lush, swampy forests. The study documents this “Pine Island amber,” a mid-Cretaceous find dating back roughly 90 ...
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First amber find on the Antarctic continent
“The analysed amber fragments allow direct insights ... all seven continents had climatic conditions allowing resin-producing trees to survive. Our goal now is to learn more about the forest ...
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First-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest Existed Near South Pole
(Klages et al., Antarctic Research, 2024) The amber was probably preserved and fossilized because high water levels quickly covered the tree resin, protecting it from ultraviolet radiation and ...
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First amber find on the Antarctic continent provides new insights into Cretaceous forests
"The analyzed amber fragments allow direct insights ... all seven continents had climatic conditions allowing resin-producing trees to survive. Our goal now is to learn more about the forest ...