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Amber fossils are like a time capsule, preserving the three-dimensional structure of animals, plants, and other…

Fossils rarely retain evidence of an organism’s original color, but these 99-million-year-old amber fossils found in…

Ancient insects similar to modern lice parasitized dinosaurs by feasting on their feathers, as evidenced by a pair…

An analysis of 30-million-year-old amber has resulted in the discovery of a previously unknown microscopic creature…

An incredible 99-million-year-old chunk of amber contains several trapped marine gastropods, as well as an extinct…

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…

Featherwing beetles are some of the smallest insects out there—and one researcher managed to spot an ancient…

Millions of years ago, unlucky animals settled in the sticky resin of trees, only to be trapped and preserved until…

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…

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…

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…

In the late 1950s, an entomologist named Milton Sanderson collected some 160 pounds of 20 million year old amber…

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…

Good news Nokia Lumia owners: everyone will be able to use the fancy new camera tech that the new Lumia 925 comes…