Wherever there's dirt there's bound to be ants, but one particular group is so adept at blending in with the ground that they ...

creating amber-like fossils from pine resin in 24 hours. The technique could help reveal the biochemistry of amber as it forms, a process that otherwise would remain hidden in the fog of prehistory.

A fossil enthusiast purchased the amber containing Sirenobethylus charybdis, which came from Myanmar’s Kachin region near the border with China, several years ago and donated it to Capital ...

This is special because many of the amber fossils discovered over decades and decades of research have come from northern hemisphere sites such as Myanmar. Regardless of where they came from ...

Barden et alHell ant caught inside amber fossil with its prey (left) and a reconstruction of the specimen (right). “Since the first hell ant was unearthed about a hundred years ago, it’s been ...

Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

Amber is coveted the world over as both jewelry and a vessel for prehistoric remnants, with rarer specimens preserving ...

A fossil enthusiast purchased the amber containing Sirenobethylus charybdis, which came from Myanmar’s Kachin region near the border with China, several years ago and donated it to Capital ...

For example, a group of wasps known as cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nest of another wasp species, and the larvae feast on their new hosts’ young once they hatch.Amber fossils offer a ...