This is a petal from the flower of the now-extinct species of algarrobo tree whose resin was the source of all Dominican amber. Without this single species of tree, the fabulously rich community ...
Decades ago, a woman from the Romanian village of Colți found a striking, reddish-brown hunk of rock in the bed of a stream and took it home. For years, she used it as a doorstop, convinced that it ...
The salamander managed to escape but then must have fallen into a pool of tree resin, which preserved the tiny amphibian as it hardened into amber. George Poinar, Jr., a biologist at Oregon State ...
These fossils—also known as inclusions—can appear astonishingly fresh, preserved just as they were when they died trapped in ...
Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and ...
Amber close amberHardened tree resin. is a substance that is formed from hardened tree sap or resin. This allows the whole organism to be seen clearly. Britain's most famous peat bog body is known ...