In an Ecuadorian quarry, researchers have uncovered an exceptional fossil treasure: 112-million-year-old amber containing ...

Learn more about amber from South America, which reveals a warm, wet forest filled with insects, springtails, and spiders.

Amber is fossilized tree resin. Sometimes amber is found with bioinclusions - animals, plants and fungi that got trapped in the sticky stuff before it hardened and eventually fossilized. Sign up here.

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

Researchers found tiny amber pieces in Antarctica’s seafloor. The discovery proves the continent once had forests.

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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 ...

As Jurassic Park opens, before the viewers or the characters ever set eyes on a dinosaur, we’re taken first to an amber mine in the Dominican Republic where workers are dutifully digging into the ...

During its lifetime nearly 100 million years ago, a newfound parasitic worm likely made its home in the bellies of fish. So how one ended up preserved in amber, fossilized tree resin, has ...

Almost 40 million years ago a flower bloomed in a Baltic conifer forest. Dripping tree resin encased the petals and pollen, forever showcasing an ephemeral moment in our planet's past. Scientists have ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of well-preserved fossils of wasps, midges, flies, beetles and other insects is giving a glimpse of a ...