A supernova close enough to Earth could strip the ozone layer and cause mass extinction, but no immediate threat exists.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists have made a historic discovery, finding amber fragments for the first time in one of Earth’s coldest places, Antarctica. This discovery, led by Dr. Johann P. Klages from the Alfred Wegener ...

Berlin, November 13 (IANS): Scientists in Germany have discovered amber in Antarctica for the first time, revealing that ...

For the first time, amber fragments have been recovered from Antarctica, or, to be more specific, from an offshore ...

Around 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees, allowing them to grow ...

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