Ancient amber found in Antarctica uncovers a 90-million-year-old rainforest, revealing insights into its warm, prehistoric ...
The discovery of fossilised plant 'blood' - once prized as a gemstone - shows what lived on the continent before it was all ...
The discovery of fossilised plant 'blood' - once prized as a gemstone - shows what lived on the continent before it was all ...
Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...
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 preservation is remarkable,” Briggs said. “The density of the pyrite contrasts with that of the mudstone in which they were buried. Their details were extracted based on computed tomography [CT] ...