The coordinates of the Pine Island amber discovery are 73.57° South ... Dr. Klages further commented, "This fascinating find also indicates in more detail how the forest we reconstructed in our Nature study from 2020 could have functioned," according ...

The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric Antarctica.

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 for the first time.

This southernmost discovery of amber offers new insights into Cretaceous forests near the South Pole, AWI said in a press release. The amber was discovered in a sediment core retr