But the spider's misfortune is our delight. Thanks to nature, the epic struggle -- pitting a pesky parasite against its vengeful host -- became immortalized, gifting us a brief glimpse into ancient ...

Imagine holding a piece of golden resin in your hand, only to discover that inside, time itself has been trapped—along with ...

How amber creates exquisite fossils A warm-hued material prized by jewelry makers, amber takes more than 40,000 years to form. See pictures of some of the finest specimens.

Stories in the Amber. By Peter Tyson; Posted 02.14.06; NOVA; Tens of millions of years ago, in a tropical forest on what today is the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, tiny insects and other fauna ...

Scientists have discovered a tiny fossil beetle trapped in amber. It's three millimeters long, and it has a flat body and giant feathery antennae that it would have used to navigate under tree bark.

Archaeologists in Myanmar have discovered the preserved skull of the smallest dinosaur to ever inhabit the Earth entombed in amber. For nearly 100 million years, the half-inch skull filled with ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the ...

Fossilized flowers are very rare, but in a study published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, researchers in Berlin and Vienna identified a 40-million-year-old flower, preserved in amber ...

A spectacular new amber fossil from Myanmar holds the skull of the smallest prehistoric dinosaur ever found: a bird-like creature that lived 99 million years ago and grew no bigger than the ...