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Antarctica’s first amber uncovers a 90-million-year-old polar rainforest

Tiny amber fragments found in West Antarctica reveal a 90-million-year-old warm, swampy conifer rainforest near the South Pole, marking Antarctica’s first fossil resin and expanding amber’s southern range. The discovery provides direct clues about polar forest life and how these ecosystems endured stress during the mid-Cretaceous greenhouse climate.