Even in amber fossils, that's a rarity. We also found a true biting midge that's still around today ( Austroconops ). It's ...

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 is what you call resinous, fossil matter which gives off a characteristic, aromatic so-called amber smell when burning'. Modern science says amber is made of resin that is about 40 million ...

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

On our interactive map, sample major sources of fossil-bearing amber and learn about their age, distribution, and other interesting facts that set them apart from one another. To launch the ...

This amber fossil “almost captures behavior, and that’s really hard in the fossil record,” says Nathalie Nagalingum, a plant evolutionary biologist at the California Academy of Sciences who was not ...

A group of 99-million-year-old flowers was discovered in present-day Myanmar (Burma) perfectly preserved in amber.