This one-of-a-kind predatory strategy has never been seen in other insects. Scientists think it was used to trap flies into ...

A polished piece of amber from Myanmar has revealed one of the most significant fossil discoveries in recent years– an exquisitely preserved feathered dinosaur tail dating back nearly 99 million years ...

Barden et alHell ant caught inside amber fossil with its prey (left) and a reconstruction of the specimen (right). “Since the first hell ant was unearthed about a hundred years ago, it’s been ...

For the first time, researchers have discovered a piece of fossilized resin, or amber, in Antarctica. The tiny golden fragment, unearthed beneath the seafloor, contains microscopic remnants of an ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...

Amber, which forms from tree resin, preserves ancient specimens in three dimensions, revealing “all the delicate features that you normally don’t get in other fossil types.” The flower that ...

ANTARCTICA (WKRC) - Scientists recently discovered amber fragments that suggest the snow-covered continent of Antarctica could have once been a lush jungle. The idea that Antarctica once looked ...

But in the new study, published Tuesday (Nov. 12) in the journal Antarctic Science, researchers identified a tiny piece of amber, around 0.002 inch (70 micrometers) across, in sediment cores ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...