A newly discovered scorpion fossil is rewriting the story of ancient ecosystems. This rare find, named Jeholia longchengi, ...

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

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in ...

Fossil resins, particularly amber, are valuable materials that provide insights into ancient ecosystems and the history of plant life. Recent research has focused on characterizing these resins ...

This amber fossil “almost captures behavior, and that’s really hard in the fossil record,” says Nathalie Nagalingum, a plant evolutionary biologist at the California Academy of Sciences who was not ...

The specimens were actually found in Myanmar where amateur amber hunters bring their finds to sell to the highest bidder. In this case, the ancient fossilized tree sap held something that was ...

Chinese scientists have found a 125-million-year-old venomous scorpion fossil in northeast China. The discovery, made by ...