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The discovery of fossilised plant 'blood' - once prized as a gemstone - shows what lived on the continent before it was all ...

"At the same time, it has dense fibers, and a seamless texture, and layers as delicate as paper, which makes it an ideal material for art," Li says, adding that the bark is also waterproof as a result ...

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

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 ...

Famous for its ability to change color, the chameleon blends into its environment using specialized skin cells called ...