Frogs trapped in amber for 99 million years are giving a glimpse of a lost world. The tiny creatures have been preserved in sticky tree resin since the end of the Age of the Dinosaurs. The four ...

For the first time ever, researchers have discovered an amber fossil in Antarctica. It provides the best evidence there is of an ancient swampy rainforest that once covered the continent during ...

It belonged to a family that no longer exists, and suggests there’s more diversity in the fossil record of flowering plants than previously recognized. Read the full story. First-Ever Antarctic Amber ...

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 ...

On our interactive map, sample major sources of fossil-bearing amber and learn about their age, distribution, and other interesting facts that set them apart from one another. To launch the ...

Feathered dinosaurs were covered in ticks just like modern animals, fossil evidence shows. Parasites similar to modern ticks have been found inside pieces of amber from Myanmar dating back 99 ...

The discovery of Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum is a reminder of how much remains to be learned about life’s evolutionary ...

(Source: Alfred Wegener Institute) Researchers aim to uncover more about this ancient ecosystem, investigating whether it burned down or preserved life within the amber. The findings set the stage ...

Fossil remains have been found in rocks of all ... For example, dead animals and plants can be preserved in amber, peat bogs, tar pits, or in ice instead.

Under certain conditions fossils might not have been created ... For example, dead animals and plants can be preserved in amber, peat bogs, tar pits, or in ice. Amber close amberHardened tree ...