About 99 million years ago, this horned "hell ant" was in the midst of devouring a prehistoric cockroach when it got stuck in ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and gnarled landscape of branches, trunks and leaves that provide a seemingly ...

During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ago. The tiny creatures in question were lacewing larvae. Although adult ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil evidence of insect larvae with highly developed eyes, revealing that some ...

Adult insects are known for their fascinating ... which they subsequently no longer attained," says Haug. The fossils were preserved in amber about 100 million years ago, which allowed the team ...

of a beetle fossilized in Burmese amber together with grains of cycad pollen reveals that the relationship between these plants and insects may have begun long before the 99-million-year-old fossil ...

Dr. Ales Bucek, currently the head of the Laboratory of insect symbiosis at the ... scientific value of this piece of amber when he saw it in an e-shop for fossil collectors.

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

The sun shimmered on the silent insect cradled in the glistening ... Ocean waves dislodged the silt and exposed the amber. Around the fossil now lived an array of sea creatures.

Remember, "skeletons" include bone, the protein shell of crabs or insects, the sturdy shells ... encasement in amber (fossilized tree sap). Very very rare, usually only very young fossils. 4. Chemical ...