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

Australian amber is now helping to understand the biological diversity of ancient Gondwanan environments from 42 million ...

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 ...

amber that contains remains of ancient plants and animals is cosmopolitan. On our interactive map, sample major sources of fossil-bearing amber and learn about their age, distribution, and other ...

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 ...