Fossilized Newborn Insects Preserved in Amber Provide First Fossil Evidence of Egg Bursters Researchers often have speculations about certain practices that ancient species followed. No matter how ...

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

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

of a beetle fossilized in Burmese amber together with grains of cycad pollen reveals that the relationship between these plants and insects may have begun long before the 99-million-year-old fossil ...

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

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

Dr. Ales Bucek, currently the head of the Laboratory of insect symbiosis at the ... scientific value of this piece of amber when he saw it in an e-shop for fossil collectors.

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

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 ...

The sun shimmered on the silent insect cradled in the glistening ... Ocean waves dislodged the silt and exposed the amber. Around the fossil now lived an array of sea creatures.

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