Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

German researchers found amber in Antarctica for the first time, proving it had trees 90 million years ago. In 2017, the ...

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

Scientists have discovered amber fragments in Antarctica, revealing that the now-frozen continent was once a thriving rainforest during the mid-Cretaceous period. The amber, dating back 90 million ...

Amber is fossilized resin, or tree sap, that can trap plants, insects, small animals or other organic matter with it as it ...

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

Scientists have discovered the first-ever sample of fossilized tree resin, known as amber, on Earth's southernmost continent ...

Scientists recently discovered amber fragments that suggest the snow-covered continent of Antarctica could have once been a ...

Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and ...

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 ...

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

German geologists have discovered amber – fossilised tree resin – in samples of mud recovered from the seafloor near the outer edges of the icy continent’s landmass in 2017. The nuggets reveal ‘direct ...