For the first time ever, researchers have discovered an amber fossil in Antarctica. It provides the best evidence there is of an ancient swampy rainforest that once covered the continent during ...

Amber, the fossilized resin of ancient plants, has turned up on every continent except Antarctica. Now with this new report, Antarctica joins the other six. The presence of resin also answers long ...

Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved in fossilized amber. This, so far, oldest and only ...

On our interactive map, sample major sources of fossil-bearing amber and learn about their age, distribution, and other interesting facts that set them apart from one another. To launch the ...

Mosquitos have survived for millions of years. We’ve discovered several of these little blood-sucking insects inside fossilized amber, where they were trapped millions of years ago. It’s this ...

Figure 1. Fossilized nits of chewing lice, tightly affixed to feathers of an enantiornithine bird, entombed in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. (a) Isolated barbs and regularly arranged ...

It is hardly possible to talk about fossil insects in amber without the 1993 movie Jurassic Park entering the debate. The idea of recreating dinosaurs by extracting DNA from insects in amber has held ...

There are two floors worth of amber specimens, some fossilized. One of the highlights is a fossilized lizard dating back millions of years. And if you're planning on purchasing some amber jewelry ...