Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were already using a wide variety of tactics to protect themselves from predators 100 million years ago. Early life stages of insects fulfill important ...

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists ...

The willow warbler is a small, migratory songbird known for its sweet sound. You can see it in parks, gardens, and woodland ...

Lizards in amber are extremely rare—so rare that a single intact specimen can bring hundreds of thousands of dollars on the collectors' market. This gecko may have been eyeing a tasty insect ...

David Grimaldi has traveled in 40 countries on 6 continents, collecting and studying recent species of insects and conducting fossil excavations. He is the author of Amber: Window to the Past (Abrams, ...

Cai said he thought the insect was a type of beetle in the Elateroidea family — similar to a separate species Cai also helped to identify from Burmese amber in 2021 — due to the fossilized ...

Amber from Myanmar, containing skin ... they found plants, spiders and insects. There were even marine molluscs, suggesting frogs lived in a humid, warm, tropical forest ecosystem that contained ...

Most insects of this species have soft bodies ... Firefly species Flammarionella hehaikuni uncovered from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Cai, Ballantyne & Kundrata (2024), NIGPAS) The early ...

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists say. Several deepsea fish, mushrooms and insects are capable of ...