Scientists have discovered amber in the sediment core recovered from thousands of feet below the surface of the Antarctic, a ...

The argument that Antarctica holds more than just piles of snow and ice is not particularly new, but thanks to the latest ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below ...

US President Joe Biden chose to take no questions from the media after making a brief statement during his historic visit to ...

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

"Supposedly 'simple' or everyday motifs such as textiles or blankets are in fact ritualistic clothing that shamans put on in ...

a baffling finding that could indicate the existence of an ancient temperate rainforest in the now-frozen region dating back to the Cretaceous Period around 90 million years ago. In a new paper ...

But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments of an ancient rainforest that covered the South Pole during the Cretaceous period.

The tiny golden fragment, unearthed beneath the seafloor, contains microscopic remnants of an ancient dinosaur-era rainforest that sprawled across the continent 90 million years ago, a new study ...