Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...
Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...
Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...
Scientists discovered a dinosaur tail preserved in amber, revealing soft tissue, feathers, and clues leading to an incredible theory.
The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...
Atmospheric carbon dioxide was high in the Cretaceous, making the world in general a warmer place. Moreover, the lack of an ...
The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the second ...
Firefly fossils are particularly rare, with a solitary example reported previously dated to the Mesozoic era of the dinosaurs 252 to 66 million years ago. The Burmese amber containing the fossil ...
A fossil from the late Mesozoic period was discovered in Myanmar, containing an ancient species of firefly that roamed the ...