They masquerade as a much less desirable prey—ants—and Poinar's recent paper in Historical Biology presents an early record ...

This extinct mushroom is the only known fossil tropical mushroom ever found ... When the cinnamon-colored mushroom was overrun by a glob of resin, a tiny mite grazing on its cap was entombed ...

Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved in fossilized amber. This, so far, oldest and only ...

It is the resin from this very tree that created the precious fossil: Text Today, a vast majority believe the parent tree of succinate [amber – ed.] to be the araucarias of the genus Agathis, and that ...

Under certain conditions fossils might not have been created ... Amber close amberHardened tree resin. is a substance that is formed from hardened tree sap or resin. This allows the whole organism ...

Because the fossil was encased in calcium deposits ... They also coated the rock in plastic resin and took other steps to dissolve its surrounding parts with acid. That process alone took ...

Amber was found in western Antarctica, revealing fossilized tree resin over 40,000 years old, providing a new glimpse into the continent’s verdant past. (Source: Alfred Wegener Institute ...