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

Bucek. After purchasing the fossil, the team of the OIST Evolutionary Genomics Unit used an X-ray micro-CT to get a better look at the E. affinis pair embedded in the amber, "identifying the ...

According to the first Polish monograph devoted to it, the 1833 O Bursztynie (On Amber) by the Kraków physician Jan Freyer, ‘Amber is what you call resinous, fossil matter which gives off a ...

The discovery, published today (August 16) in Current Biology, of a beetle fossilized in Burmese amber together with grains of cycad pollen reveals that the relationship between these plants and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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