An international team of scientists working in Italy have found the oldest samples of arthropods preserved in amber — a finding that is 100 million years older than previous fossilized samples. The ...

For more than a century, amber has helped scientists reconstruct vanished worlds by preserving tiny fragments of life that ...

The discoveries in Italy may sound like something out of Jurassic Park, but these bugs are even older than that. They are about 230 million years old, which puts them in the Triassic time period, and ...

In an Ecuadorian quarry, researchers have uncovered an exceptional fossil treasure: 112-million-year-old amber containing perfectly preserved insects. This discovery opens a unique window onto the ...

A fossil trapped in amber from Myanmar has revealed a 100-million-year-old true bug with unusual crab-like claws on its front legs. Researchers from LMU Munich identified this as a species never seen ...

JERUSALEM, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researchers have discovered a 99-million-year-old bug preserved in amber, the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University said in a statement on ...

Amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar has preserved a wealth of fossils, offering insights into the diversity of the Cretaceous fauna of a 100-million-year-old forest ecosystem. The site continues ...