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

The fossil dating back approximately 100 million years ago was discovered in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber found in Myanmar. Tapeworms, members of the phylum Platyhelminthes and classified within ...

Ocean waves dislodged the silt and exposed the amber. Around the fossil now lived an array of sea creatures. Crabs scampered over the resin graveyard, fish swam up and nudged amber nuggets ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and gnarled landscape of branches, trunks and leaves that provide a seemingly ...

Researchers studying 100-million-year-old fossils found in amber discover that Cretaceous lacewings had sophisticated larval eyes.

‘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 ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil evidence of insect larvae with highly developed eyes, revealing that some ...

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 ...

The fossils were preserved in amber about 100 million years ago, which allowed the team to conduct detailed investigations and measurements. They found that the size and orientation of the larval ...