Imagine holding a piece of golden resin in your hand, only to discover that inside, time itself has been trapped—along with the fragile memory of a creature that lived millions of years ago. The sight ...

Photomicrograph of Basiceros enana, a newly discovered extinct dirt ant species preserved in Dominican amber, formed from ...

For the study, "Experimental maturation of pine resin in sediment to investigate the formation of synthetic copal and amber," published in Scientific Reports, scientists heated and pressurized ...

Amber is coveted the world over as both jewelry and a vessel for prehistoric remnants, with rarer specimens preserving ...

Biologists at NJIT unearth a buried chapter in the evolution of dirt ants, uncovering first fossil evidence that one of Earth ...

Amber, the fossilised tree resin, is often known as ‘The Gold of the North’ or the ‘Gem of the Baltic’, because of its beautiful colour. According to the first Polish monograph devoted to it, the 1833 ...

Besides plants and flowers, a dinosaur tail, a crab, a hell ant, a spider mom and her young, and a firefly have been found entombed in globs of tree resin.A fossil enthusiast purchased the amber ...

Infrared spectroscopy showed chemical changes in the resin, including a reduced carbonyl (C=O) signal at 1700 cm⁻¹. This pattern is also seen in natural copal and Eocene Baltic amber ...

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric fossilization of the real stuff. By Richard Fisher Amber is coveted the world over ...