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 ...

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Amber is fossilized tree resin that has hardened over millions of years due to heat and pressure. The value of amber is often determined by its clarity and the organic inclusions, such as insects or ...

A tsunami might have occured some 115 million years ago, near where deposits of Cretaceous amber were found in Japan. Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 Scientists in Japan have uncovered amber deposits ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent ...

A 112-million-year-old chironomid fly (Diptera: Nematocera) is preserved in amber from Ecuador's Genoveva quarry, representing South America's first discovery of ancient insects trapped in fossilized ...

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Scientists have discovered evidence of an ancient tsunami in Japan — which is hidden in tree amber that dates to the age of the dinosaurs. The amber samples are deformed in a particular way that ...