The study, by Dr. George Poinar of Oregon State University and colleagues, was titled "A Fossil Bee from Early Cretaceous Burmese Amber." ...

An exquisitely preserved fossilised tadpole is the oldest ever discovered by science ... Palaeontologists found the fossil in ...

This, so far, oldest and only-described fossil of an Electrotermes ... immediately recognized the scientific value of this piece of amber when he saw it in an e-shop for fossil collectors.

"It's the super-glue of the fossil record," said Prof Caldwell. "Amber is totally unique - whatever it touches is frozen in time inside of the plastic-like resin." Snakes: The oldest known snake ...

The tiny skeleton, unearthed from Triassic-aged rocks in a quarry near Bristol, is at least 205 million years old and the oldest modern ... proves that the fossil is related to modern anguimorphs ...

The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that ... tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found, wonderfully preserved.

A tadpole fossil found in Argentina, dating back at least 161 million years, is the oldest that has ever been discovered. The fossil was found back in January 2020, with news of the discovery ...

Until now, amber fossils had been found on every one of Earth's continents, except for Antarctica. But in the new study, published Tuesday (Nov. 12) in the journal Antarctic Science, researchers ...