Forget what you thought you knew about fireflies. A remarkable discovery reveals their iconic glow was already lighting up ...

Despite its teeny-tiny stature, the creature was likely a predator. The researchers said the fossil, named Oculudentavis, represented the smallest dinosaur ever found. Burmese amber with the skull of ...

A photo of what appeared to be a dinosaur tail trapped in amber captured the attention of millions in September 2025 when it was shared on social media. An X post (archived) viewed over 12 million ...

In 2015, Lida Xing was visiting a market in northern Myanmar when a salesman brought out a piece of amber about the size of a pink rubber eraser. Inside, he could see a couple of ancient ants and a ...

An array of perfectly preserved insects and even a spider's web, encased in 112-million-year-old amber, have been found in a quarry in the Amazon rainforest. Xavier Delclòs at the University of ...

WASHINGTON • Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of well-preserved fossils of wasps, midges, flies, beetles and other insects is giving a glimpse of a Cretaceous ...