Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday ... However, the fossilized pair’s irregular side-by-side positioning in the amber also stood out. A pair typically would have ...

David Dilcher et alAngimordella burmitina is a newly discovered ancient beetle species, found trapped inside fossilized amber ...

At 28 millimeters (1.1 inches) across, it’s the largest known flower to be fossilized in amber – three times the size of similar fossils. Sadowski extracted and examined pollen from the amber.

The piece of Russian amber allowed scientists to recreate the ancient scene from the past and understand current animal behavior. The fossil, found in Kaliningrad, Russia, is a "unicorn" because ...

A pair of fossilized termites are proving that love can last forever -- when frozen in amber -- and that their extinct species got it on 38 million years ago roughly the same way as termites today ...

Scientists have officially identified the largest fossilized flower ever recorded: a nearly 40 million-year-old flower entombed in a hunk of amber, according to a study published Jan. 12 in the ...

Fossilized flowers are very rare, but in a study published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, researchers in Berlin and Vienna identified a 40-million-year-old flower, preserved in amber ...

For many thousands of years, the fossilized tree resin known as amber has entranced jewelry makers and inspired the scientific imagination. For the past 200 years especially, paleontologists ...

Insects tend to be the creatures most often discovered in fossilized amber, but every once in a while paleontologists strike gold and find something else. Last year, researchers revealed a nearly ...