"This specimen perfectly illustrates the cooperative evolution of plants and animals during this time period." ...

Without this single species of tree, the fabulously rich community of ancient life captured in Dominican amber—which includes the largest fossil gathering of land-dwelling invertebrates in a ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fossil resins, particularly amber, are valuable materials that provide insights into ancient ecosystems and the history of plant life. Recent research has focused on characterizing these resins ...

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

3A & 3B. Bird bones from the LaBrea oil seep. Unaltered hard and soft parts: mummification, freezing, encasement in amber (fossilized tree sap). Very very rare, usually only very young fossils. 4.