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90-million-year-old amber discovered in Antarctica reveals secrets of ancient forest
The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric ...
First amber find on the Antarctic continent provides new insights into Cretaceous forests
Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...
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First amber find on the Antarctic continent
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.
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Antarctic Amber Discovered for the First Time
A team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and TU Bergakademie Freiberg has discovered amber in Antarctica, offering ...
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China elaborating the “most complete” map of Antarctica
Although much of Antarctica has been chartered and collected in maps by different countries this latest edition to be finished at the end of this year has been described “as the most complete so ...
Latest findings from the South Pole Telescope bolster standard cosmological model
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...
When art and Antarctica collide: exhibition reveals depth of meaning
The introductory wall label in the exhibition in Hobart cites Edmund Halley as the first man to sketch tabular icebergs inthe ...
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First Amber Discovered on Antarctic Continent
Alfred Wegener Institute and TU Bergakademie FreibergRoughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were ...
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A positive SAM has arrived – here's what it means for Australian weather
The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) has shifted into a positive phase and Australia is already feeling its wet and stormy ...