It is about one inch wide and is three times larger than the second-biggest bloom embedded in amber. It dates to the late Eocene epoch, making it roughly 40-million-years-old. The fossil was ...

Bucek. After purchasing the fossil, the team of the OIST Evolutionary Genomics Unit used an X-ray micro-CT to get a better look at the E. affinis pair embedded in the amber, "identifying the ...

The fossil of a baby snake has been discovered entombed inside amber. The creature has been frozen in time for 99 million years. The snake lived in what is now Myanmar, during the age of the ...

The discovery, published today (August 16) in Current Biology, of a beetle fossilized in Burmese amber together with grains of cycad pollen reveals that the relationship between these plants and ...