Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

Ra donated the fossil to the Hupoge Amber Museum in Tengchong, China, which Ra’s son-in-law Guang Chen directs. The dinosaur’s species name, khaungraae , honors Ra’s donation. 3:32 ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Researchers have discovered the third-ever tardigrade fossil on record, suspended within a piece of 16-million-year-old Dominican amber. Microscopic tardigrades have thrived on Earth for more than ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

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.

In 2015, two researchers stumbled across a piece of amber jewelry in a market in Tengchong, China, that was found by miners in Myanmar.The piece has a young, five-millimeter-long crab embedded in it.

The fossil is the latest to emerge from Myanmar’s rich amber fields. While amber fossils have been some of paleontology’s most exciting finds in recent years, ethical concerns about the provenance of ...

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.