The study concludes that the amber was originally formed as resin in coastal forests. During massive tsunami events, entire ...

These vibrantly colored bugs were found preserved in amber — and they're from the Golden Age of Dinosaurs. The 99-million-year-old wasps and beetles still display the same iridescent hues that they ...

Scientists in Japan have uncovered amber deposits that may hold elusive evidence of tsunamis that occurred between 114 ...

Japanese geologists have linked ancient amber layers on the seafloor to a massive landslide-triggered tsunami during the age ...

Paleontologists discovered the oldest ant species on the planet, 113 million years old and with scythe-shaped jaws.

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric fossilization of the real stuff. By Richard Fisher Amber is coveted the world over ...

Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent for the first time. The researchers found the amber in a sediment core recovered from 3,103 feet (946 ...

he remembers wondering. “Could this be a real scorpion in fake amber?” Amber forms when tree resin is fossilized by high temperatures and pressure over millions of years. Artists value its ...

Deep dive into the amber deposits on Hokkaido Island in Japan, which may serve as a record of ancient tsunamis.

A polished piece of amber from Myanmar has revealed one of the most significant fossil discoveries in recent years– an ...

Amber deposits found in ancient deep-sea sediment may represent one of the oldest records to date of a tsunami, suggests ...

Wavelike patterns in 115-million-year-old amber suggest that a long-ago tsunami inundated what is now northern Japan, researchers report May 15 in Scientific Reports. Tsunamis can be destructive ...