A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...

The sea level began to change and salt water slowly inundated the area, submerging our entombed bee. Ocean waves dislodged the silt and exposed the amber. Around the fossil now lived an array of ...

Scientists say they’ve found the tiniest dinosaur ever, and it was encased in amber ... tiny fossil from Myanmar suggests the dinosaur it came from may have been as small as the bee hummingbird ...

creating amber-like fossils from pine resin in 24 hours. The technique could help reveal the biochemistry of amber as it forms, a process that otherwise would remain hidden in the fog of prehistory.

Bee exoskeletons are made of chitin, a fibrous substance that also forms the cell walls of fungi, which decomposes rather ...

Without this single species of tree, the fabulously rich community of ancient life captured in Dominican amber—which includes the largest fossil gathering of land-dwelling invertebrates in a ...

The Field Museum in Chicago and the Foundation for Scientific Advancement reported that sediment-encased maturation of pine ...

A fossil enthusiast purchased the amber containing Sirenobethylus charybdis, which came from Myanmar’s Kachin region near the border with China, several years ago and donated it to Capital ...