One of the most exciting breakthroughs in paleontology was the discovery of a feathered dinosaur tail preserved in amber. This Cretaceous period fossil, similar to the rare 80-million-year-old ...

tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found, wonderfully preserved. Rare but highly informative are fossils created by a sudden event ...

Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved ... amber. This, so far, oldest and only-described ...

based on a specimen preserved in Baltic amber of this age. Now, researchers based at the Slovak Academy of Sciences have discovered 49-million-year-old fossils of four different Ectobius species ...

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 ...

"Most remarkable were two fossils that showed the corneal ... "The only time you might see a better-preserved insect is in ...

A misidentified Diatryma skull from Germany's Geiseltal region was rediscovered, confirming the rare bird's herbivorous ...

(Source: Alfred Wegener Institute) Researchers aim to uncover more about this ancient ecosystem, investigating whether it burned down or preserved life within the amber. The findings set the stage ...

Flowers discovered perfectly preserved in globs of amber bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs ... As such, ancient flowers aren't well represented in the fossil record, making these ancient blooms ...

Under certain conditions fossils might not have been created ... For example, dead animals and plants can be preserved in amber, peat bogs, tar pits, or in ice. Amber close amberHardened tree ...