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

But a new discovery suggests that these viscous secretions emerged in a very different world from the one our minds conjure ...

Paleontologists recently discovered tiny crystals of amber embedded in coal found in China's Hujiersite Formation, which dates back to the Late Devonian period, 385 million years ago. It's the oldest ...

Previously, the oldest amber dated to around 330 million years old, from plants that lived during the Late Carboniferous.

A fossilized Caribbean dirt ant, Basiceros enana, preserved in Dominican amber, reveals the species ancient range and overturns assumptions about its size evolution. Advanced imaging shows it already ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object is part of the Education ...

(CNN) — A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along ...

A tsunami might have occured some 115 million years ago, near where deposits of Cretaceous amber were found in Japan. Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 Scientists in Japan have uncovered amber deposits ...

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Amber deposits found in ancient deep-sea sediment may represent one of the oldest records to date of a tsunami, suggests research published in Scientific Reports. The study describes large amber ...