Amber can record the most fleeting moments of ... showing how successful this tactic can be. This army ant appears to have been out on a hunting mission when it was entrapped.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ancient ants found perfectly preserved in amber have given us invaluable clues to their evolution. One specimen of an ant caught hunting is believed to be 99 million ...

"Ants are particularly good creatures for spiders ... Copal is a less mature form of fossilized resin than amber, which is routinely dated to be 25 million or more years old.