This first fossil of a rare and never before studied species of gnat, Robsonomyia henningseni, was found in a piece of Baltic ...

But where can one find such fossils of such fauna in well-preserved condition? The answer to this question is “Baltic amber, ...

At the present day the supply of amber is chiefly obtained from the dreary and desolate region of Samland, on the eastern Baltic, a strange, weird land of blowing sand, shifting sand-dunes ...

A fact that not everyone may know: the name amber is essentially restricted to fossil resin of Baltic provenance – other similar resins all have their own names, such as copal. People of the ...

Stump Cross Caverns The Baltic amber is about 40 million years old Fossil digs are held regularly at the caverns, which lie beneath the Yorkshire Dales, where artefacts are planted for young ...

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. The beetle is only the ...

Until now, amber fossils had been found on every one of Earth's continents, except for Antarctica. But in the new study, published Tuesday (Nov. 12) in the journal Antarctic Science, researchers ...