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, which were once home to hardy dinosaurs. Atmospheric carbon dioxide... read full story

"The analyzed amber fragments allow direct insights into environmental conditions that prevailed in West Antarctica 90 million years ago,"