Amber: More Than a Pretty Fossil If you think amber is just another pretty gemstone in a museum, think again. Amber is a ...
Amber usually brings to mind tropical forests, trapped insects, and warm landscapes. That is what makes the new Antarctic find so striking. Buried beneath the Amundsen Sea, tiny resin fragments now ...
Amber fossils are like a time capsule, preserving the three-dimensional structure of animals, plants, and other prehistoric items of interest. Every once in a while, however, paleontologists stumble ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica's first amber reveals a 90-million-year-old conifer rainforest that once grew near the South Pole. (CREDIT: DeviantArt) ...