At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

A 112-million-year-old chironomid fly (Diptera: Nematocera) is preserved in amber from Ecuador's Genoveva quarry, representing South America's first discovery of ancient insects trapped in fossilized ...

The first amber deposits in South America containing preserved insects have been discovered in a quarry in Ecuador, reports a paper in Communications Earth & Environment. The finding provides a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of well-preserved fossils of wasps, midges, flies, beetles and other insects is giving a glimpse of a ...

A Danish amber collector’s find upon a wild North Sea shore in the 1960’s has proved to be of great and surprising significance. After having thoroughly examining the roughly 40-million-year-old piece ...

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A 99-million-year-old creepy-crawly shows that bugs once played a key role in plant pollination. Scientists say the bug, preserved for tens of millions of years in amber, has revealed new information ...