The millipede family Siphonorhinidae, of which the new species is an ancient ancestor, still lives today and includes four ...

During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ago. The tiny creatures in question were lacewing larvae. Although adult ...

Found from the Arctic to the tropics, from Mexico to Myanmar to the Middle East, amber that contains remains of ancient plants and animals is cosmopolitan. On our interactive map, sample major ...

of which fossil amber is a small part, is argued to be enmeshed within a political economy fuelling a long-running civil war in Myanmar. Kachin amber is thus part of a wider weapons economy, ...