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First Amber Find on the Antarctic Continent (www.awi.de)

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Southernmost discovery of amber allows new insights into Cretaceous forests near the South Pole.

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg have just released a paper in the journal Antarctic Science, in which they describe the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.

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