This ant is roughly 13 million years older than the previous oldest-known ants, specimens found in France and Myanmar that ...

When tree sap runs down rough bark and pools together ... compressing the material until it forms what we know as amber. These sunset-colored chunks hold a snapshot of ancient history in their ...

Amber – tree sap left over from prehistoric forests, often with trapped insects or plant matter inside – was plentiful in the Baltic but highly prized for decorative purposes further south ...

Amber close amberHardened tree resin. is a substance that is formed from hardened tree sap or resin. This allows the whole organism to be seen clearly. Britain's most famous peat bog body is known ...

The salamander managed to escape but then must have fallen into a pool of tree resin, which preserved the tiny amphibian as it hardened into amber. George Poinar, Jr., a biologist at Oregon State ...

A creature trapped in amber for tens of millions of years was revealed to be a species new to science. Krystal Ng via Unsplash When tree sap runs down rough bark and pools together, what started ...