Fossilized Newborn Insects Preserved in Amber Provide First Fossil Evidence of Egg Bursters Researchers often have ...

According to the results, the hymenopteran trapped in the amber is a new species named Robsonomyia henningseni. Insects of ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and ...

Lizards in amber are extremely rare—so rare that a single intact specimen can bring hundreds of thousands of dollars on the collectors' market. This gecko may have been eyeing a tasty insect ...

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

The salamander managed to escape but then must have fallen into a pool of tree resin, which preserved the tiny amphibian as it hardened into amber. George Poinar, Jr., a biologist at Oregon State ...

The sun shimmered on the silent insect cradled in the glistening tomb ... acquired the properties of amber. Suddenly, the sarcophagus was jarred as a hammer cracked open the rock in which it ...

Adult insects are known for their fascinating and complex eyes, which allow them to accomplish remarkable sensory feats when ...

The discovery, published today (August 16) in Current Biology, of a beetle fossilized in Burmese amber together with grains of cycad pollen reveals that the relationship between these plants and ...