Fossils in Burmese amber are changing what we know about life in dinosaur times, but they come laden with ethical dilemmas for paleontologists, with some fearing they could be fueling ethnic ...

Amber fossils from Myanmar Date: October 19, 2022 Source: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Summary: Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia, is plagued by political and economic ...

Zombie fungi were already controlling insects 100 million years ago, according to a recent study of fossils trapped in ...

The unsung star of Jurassic Park was a mosquito frozen in amber. While you can’t really extract blood from specimens like that, you could be transported back in time if you looked at a specimen ...

But working with Burmese amber is difficult, if not dangerous. The mines are located in Myanmar's Kachin state, which for decades has seen war between the country's government and the Kachin ...

‘Blood amber’ may be a portal into dinosaur times, but the fossils are an ethical minefield for palaeontologists. Andrew Cuomo. By CNN. Published September 20, ...

The first Mesozoic microwhip scorpion (Palpigradi): a new genus and species in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. The Science of Nature , 2016; 103 (3-4) DOI: 10.1007/s00114-016-1345-4 Cite This ...

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.

A view of a 99-million-year-old amber containing a section of the tail of a dinosaur estimated about 18.5 centimeters long on December 09, 2016 in Shanghai, China.