In an Ecuadorian quarry, researchers have uncovered an exceptional fossil treasure: 112-million-year-old amber containing ...

Researchers found tiny amber pieces in Antarctica’s seafloor. The discovery proves the continent once had forests.

A team of scientists recently identified the first deposits of amber in South America to contain ancient insects, providing a ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

An artist’s impression of the large sauropod Diamantinasaurus matildae eating. “No genuine sauropod gut contents had ever been found anywhere before, despite sauropods being known from fossils found ...

A group of paleontologists unearthed the most complete fossil of a new species of a famed dome-headed dinosaur to date during a dig in Mongolia. The team found the pristine skeleton in the Khuren Dukh ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a long-held hypothesis Jack Tamisiea Paleontologist Conrad Labandeira, the ...

In a remote mine in Canada, a chance strike from an excavator revealed something few paleontologists ever get to see: a ...

The phrase “leave no stone unturned” has taken on new meaning for paleontologists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science who discovered a special fossil hidden right under their noses — beneath ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...