A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

A 99-million-year-old firefly fossil is shedding new light on the mysterious origins of their glowing lantern. Many of us might feel a warm glow when we remember the fields fireflies illuminated ...

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

Upon first look of the firefly fossil in 2016, 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 ...

In today’s world, most bioluminescent organisms belong to the order Coleoptera, particularly the larger Elateroidea family that includes fireflies, click beetles and their relatives. Most ...

Upon first look of the firefly fossil in 2016, 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 ...