Paleontologists have found the presence of 356 animal inclusions in completely opaque amber from mid-Cretaceous sites of Charentes. The team used the X-rays of the European light source to image ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a young ant. Insidiously, the fungus orchestrated the ant’s demise. The ant ...

With pointy teeth and bulging eyes, this tiny prehistoric animal trapped in a chunk of amber made a big splash when it hit the headlines last year.

Last week the shells of the spider (Oonopidae) and the bark louse (Psocidae), beautifully preserved in the amber, were put on display at Manhattan’s Museum of Natural History.

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 second ...

The famed Lord of the Rings director has donated his money and his bones to make a legend come to life with Colossal ...

After being trapped in amber for 44 million years, new scans of Eomortoniellus handlirschi have allowed scientists to reconstruct the katydid’s mating call. It reveals the earliest known animal to ...

A researcher discovered that a preserved flower from an ancient Baltic forest had been misclassified. Here's how she did it.

Animals Extinct species Courtship cut short for termites trapped in 38 million-year-old amber fossil News By Patrick Pester published 12 March 2024 ...

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.

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the time of dinosaurs, a new study finds.