New amber in the entomology collections record past animals’ behavior.
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Nicola Twilley reports on the discovery, in fifteen-million-year-old Dominican amber, of a new species of flowering plant, Strychnos electri.
Bugs, fungus and other life forms have been discovered trapped in amber from the time of dinosaurs.
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The 100-million-year-old remains of an alien-looking insect preserved in amber now represent a new species, genus, family and order of insects.
Scientists discovered an incredibly rare fossil suspended in 16 million-year-old amber: a never-before-seen species of tardigrade, a pudgy, aquatic critter that rarely crops up in the fossil record.
An exceptional amber deposit from roughly 40 million years ago has captured a rare form of parental care in plants – so rare it's only been reported once before on Earth.
Thanks to an international research collaboration involving the University of Granada (UGR), a hitherto undescribed species of insect has been discovered: Calliarcys antiquus, which belongs to the Ephemeroptera (mayfly) order.
In this edition of Wonder Theory, a tiny dinosaur that wasn’t, a celestial mystery is finally solved, and a disappearing lake is plagued by drought and increasing water demands.
Iain Stewart examines the beautiful fossil of a primitive bee in amber.
Most amber inclusions are organisms that lived in the forest. It is very rare to find sea life trapped in amber. However, an international research group led by Prof. Wang Bo from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) reported the first known ammonite trapped in amber in a study in PNAS published on May 13.
The incredible find shows the head, neck, wing, tail and feet of a now extinct bird in unprecedented detail.It was just a few days old when it fell into a pool of sap oozing from a conifer tree in Myanmar.
Xing et al. describe the tail of a non-avialan theropod (coelurosaur) preserved in Burmese amber, combining bone outlines with microscopic details of plumage and integument. This specimen sheds new light on the appearance and evolution of plumage of dinosaurs, providing a direct association between amber-entombed plumage and body fossil material.
Christina Quarles, known for her jumbled-up portraits of intimacy, reflects on the difficulties and opportunities of 2020.
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Extinct Baby Bird Has Been Stuck in Amber For 100 Million Years
Leaf in amber
Flies trapped in amber are providing clues to ancient mating behaviour.
