Scientists discovered a dinosaur tail preserved in amber, revealing soft tissue, feathers, and clues leading to an incredible theory.

For the first time, amber fragments have been recovered from Antarctica, or, to be more specific, from an offshore ...

Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved ... amber. This, so far, oldest and only-described ...

Learn more › Amber preserves all sorts of fossils ... their beautiful and striking golden color, these fossils are spectacularly preserved,” study co-author and University of Oxford ...

"Chimerarachne fills the gap between Palaeozoic arachnids with tails known from rocks (uraraneids) and true spiders, and the fact the new fossils have been wonderfully preserved in Burmese amber ...

But when he revisited the peculiar fossil described in the new study in late 2022, Cai noticed the well-preserved light organ ... an amateur collector who had donated several other amber specimens to ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar ... Cai noticed the ...