Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

Ninety-nine million years ago in what's now Myanmar, a glob of tree resin oozed onto a beach. Today, the resulting fossilized lump of amber is giving scientists an astonishing glimpse into life on ...

The use of organisms trapped in amber (fossil tree resin) with this finality was thought not to be possible after relatively recent fails in looking for DNA in a few thousand-year-old samples.

Amber is fossilized tree resin, and occasionally it preserves bits of plant and animal matter, like insects and bird feathers. But in this case, scientists from China, ...

In northern Japan, scientists uncovered soft amber buried 11,000 feet below the sea — a stunning clue to a forgotten ...

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Before humans even walked on th earth, a fungus was creating zombies. Scientists have uncovered a haunting scene frozen in 99-million-year-old amber from Myanmar, a tiny fly and an ant infected by a ...

The resin is different to the sap found within a tree which acts as its vascular system. It is believed that most amber is between 30 and 90 million years old. Amber is most commonly used as a ...

Amber -- sticky tree resin that hardens and preserves what's inside -- is a window into ancient times. Sometimes it's art, too. A flower trapped in Baltic amber is a stunner for both its size and ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

During its lifetime nearly 100 million years ago, a newfound parasitic worm likely made its home in the bellies of fish. So how one ended up preserved in amber, fossilized tree resin, has ...