They masquerade as a much less desirable prey—ants—and Poinar's recent paper in Historical Biology presents an early record of an ant-mimicking spider in fossilized resin. "Ants are ...

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 ...

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 ...