Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...

A German-Bulgarian research team led by SNSB paleontologist Christian Bartel has discovered a new species of harvestman in 35 ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close inspection did researchers realize something far more unsettling was preserved with ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...

The amber fossils preserve an impressive array of ancient bugs and plants that scientists are using to piece together a previously unknown Cretaceous ecosystem. Reading time 3 minutes For the first ...

The fossil record of Archostematan beetles from Cretaceous amber offers a unique window into the early evolutionary history of Coleoptera. Preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, these beetles ...

Fossil resins and ambers constitute a remarkable archive of ancient biological and geological information, offering unique insights into palaeoecological dynamics, plant evolution, and diagenetic ...

A rare fossil find shows how far the origins of extant mosquito species go back. In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous ...

Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other ...

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Insects play a critical role in ecosystems, but because they are rarely preserved as fossils it’s hard to study their part in the ecosystems of the distant past. Rare inclusions of multiple insects in ...