Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a fly with parasitic fungi bursting from their bodies.

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 ...

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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 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.