Scientists Discover 356 Animal Inclusions Trapped In Opaque Amber 100 Million Years Old. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 04 / 080401120513.htm.

Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years. The fungi were growing out of the bodies of host insects that became trapped in ...

The song and hearing range of a cricket-like insect has been discovered tens of millions of years after its death. After being trapped in amber for 44 million years, new scans of Eomortoniellus ...

The amber, or fossilized tree resin, holds the oldest and only described pair of Electrotermes affinis termites and reveals that these long-extinct insects likely engaged in the same mating ...

Animals: Trapped; Animals: Trapped. 1 minute read. TIME. April 17, 1939 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... (Psocidae), beautifully preserved in the amber, were put on display at Manhattan’s Museum of Natural ...

Fireflies in the land of dinosaurs. Upon first look of the firefly fossil in 2016, Cai said he thought the insect was a type of beetle in the Elateroidea family — similar to a separate species Cai ...

A Tiny Amphibian Trapped in Amber Is a New Species. The only known salamander from the Caribbean is preserved in a drop of golden sap that formed 20 million years ago.

Among Baltic amber specimens, only 1% to 3% of trapped organisms are botanical. This might result from a bias toward animals by amber collectors, ...

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 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.