This paper represents a very good example of the kind of detailed information that can be extracted from amber fossils.'' Amber is fossilised tree resin. The sticky substance can trap skin ...

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 ...

The four fossils give a window into a world when frogs and toads were evolving in the rainforests. Amber from Myanmar, containing skin, scales, fur, feathers or even whole creatures, is regarded ...

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 ...

Firefly fossils are particularly rare, with a solitary example reported previously dated to the Mesozoic era of the dinosaurs ...

Bucek. After purchasing the fossil, the team of the OIST Evolutionary Genomics Unit used an X-ray micro-CT to get a better look at the E. affinis pair embedded in the amber, "identifying the ...

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 ... for example, scientists have found ...