Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

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

The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric ...

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

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

Warming ocean waters are melting Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf at accelerating rates, highlighting a climate-driven trend with ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

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, scientists have discovered amber in Antarctica, marking the southernmost amber find in the world. A team ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.

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

Geopolitical ambitions threaten Antarctica's peace, driving resource interest and testing the 1961 Antarctic Treaty.