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Polar Forests? Yes, Discovery of Amber Proves Antarctica Once Had Them
Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it supported lush forests.
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 team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent for the first time.
First-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest Existed Near South Pole
Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, swampy rainforest existed near the South Pole, and that this prehistoric environment was " dominated by conifers ", similar to forests in New Zealand and Patagonia today.
First-Ever Antarctic Amber Spills Secrets Of The Continent's Cretaceous Forests
For the first time, amber fragments have been recovered from Antarctica, or, to be more specific, from an offshore sedimentary basin. The fossils mean we now have amber samples from every continent, and provide information about Antarctica’s forests,
90-million-year-old amber discovered in Antarctica reveals secrets of ancient forest
The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric Antarctica.
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Stunning fossil trapped in amber reveals previously unknown species that lived during the time of dinosaurs
The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...
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“Pine Island Amber”: Scientists discover world's southernmost amber in antarctica, revealing forest
The coordinates of the Pine Island amber discovery are 73.57° South, 107.09° West, marking it as the southernmost find of ...
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Fossil firefly trapped in Myanmar amber reveals mysterious origins of glowing insects
Firefly fossils are particularly rare, with a solitary example reported previously dated to the Mesozoic era of the dinosaurs 252 to 66 million years ago. The Burmese amber containing the fossil ...
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Fossil trapped in amber reveals previously unknown species that lived during time of dinosaurs
The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...