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 ...

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.

Paleontologists in New Zealand discovered a 14.6-million-year-old bee fossil named Leioproctus barrydonovani, marking the oldest bee specimen ever recovered and the first of its kind found in the ...

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 ...

Finding fossils of any species is an exciting discovery for science, but some are a little bit more special than others. In New Zealand, a 14.6-million-year-old fossilized bee has been discovered ...

Amber and copal are fossilized tree resins prized ... Previous research has described fossil resin formations as products of volatile compound loss and polymerization of resin constituents ...