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

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Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.