The Field Museum in Chicago and the Foundation for Scientific Advancement reported that sediment-encased maturation of pine ...

Amber is coveted the world over as both jewelry and a vessel for prehistoric remnants, with rarer specimens preserving ...

A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...

This is a petal from the flower of the now-extinct species of algarrobo tree whose resin was the source ... captured in Dominican amber—which includes the largest fossil gathering of land ...

It is the resin from this very tree that created the precious fossil: Text Today, a vast majority believe the parent tree of succinate [amber – ed.] to be the araucarias of the genus Agathis, and that ...

Ocean waves dislodged the silt and exposed the amber. Around the fossil now lived an array of sea creatures. Crabs scampered over the resin graveyard, fish swam up and nudged amber nuggets ...

Under certain conditions fossils might not have been created ... tar pits, or in ice. Amber close amberHardened tree resin. is a substance that is formed from hardened tree sap or resin.

amber forms over millions of years as tree resin fossilizes, but paleontologists have sped that up, creating amber-like fossils from pine resin in 24 hours. The technique could help reveal the ...

A fossil enthusiast purchased the amber containing Sirenobethylus charybdis, which came from Myanmar’s Kachin region near the border with China, several years ago and donated it to Capital ...