Gemologist Finds Insect Trapped in Opal Instead of Amber
On a trip to Indonesia, gemologist Brian Berger purchased an opal that appeared to have an insect entombed inside.…
On a trip to Indonesia, gemologist Brian Berger purchased an opal that appeared to have an insect entombed inside.…
Scientists working in Myanmar have uncovered a nearly 100-million-year-old baby snake encased in amber. Dating back to…
Featherwing beetles are some of the smallest insects out there—and one researcher managed to spot an ancient specimen…
Millions of years ago, unlucky animals settled in the sticky resin of trees, only to be trapped and preserved until we…
This has been a huge year for finding specimens in amber, from bird wings to dinosaur feathers to this ugly-ass bug.…
A tick sucks some monkey blood. A monkey’s grooming partner picks the tick off. The tick lands in some sap. The whole…
Scientists in China have discovered male damselflies caught in the act of trying to court females inside a piece of…
Say hello to Aethiocarenus burmanicus, an ancient insect so strange—and so god awfully ugly—its discoverers had to…
Amber delivers a slice of ancient life, showing us everything from early predation to the earliest preserved erect penis
Researchers working in Burma have uncovered the fossilized remains of a 99-million-year old male daddy longlegs with…
This ancient ant and its parasitic companion became locked together in amber about 44 to 49 million years ago. It's the…
In the late 1950s, an entomologist named Milton Sanderson collected some 160 pounds of 20 million year old amber in…
Finding ancient bugs trapped in amber is hardly new, but this Cretaceous-era assassin fly may be the most pristine…
Well, it looks like we may never have our own Jurassic Park. Scientists at the University of Manchester failed to pull…
Good news Nokia Lumia owners: everyone will be able to use the fancy new camera tech that the new Lumia 925 comes…
100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still around, this spider had captured a wasp in his web. The wasp was going…
Mayflies spend a year awaiting their birth, and then most die after living just one day. Their sole purpose is to pass…
Deep sea fish assimilating males for extra sperm, flies frozen mid-coitus for 20 million years, and a walrus's penis…
This ant, preserved in amber 50 million years ago, is evidence that we may have dramatically misunderstood the…
By providing you with an easy way to keep your child's information all in one place, this USB Amber Alert Child ID kit…
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