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

Truly, amber is nature's finest camera, capturing still images of life from an unfathomably distant past. Hardened in anaerobic lake sediments, amber's chemical compounds become inexorably linked to ...

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 ...

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 and ...

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 ...

An ant preserved in 16 million-year-old amber mastered the art of camouflage. A rare 16 million-year-old ant preserved in amber is helping scientists uncover new secrets about one of nature's most ...

Scientists discover possible evidence of a 116-million-year-old tsunami recorded in amber The researchers suggested the amber had likely been swept into the ocean by one or more tsunamis, with ...

First amber find on the Antarctic continent Southernmost discovery of amber allows new insights into Cretaceous forests near the South Pole Date: November 12, 2024 Source: Alfred Wegener Institute ...