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

Daniella Santoro never expected to find an ancient Roman gravestone in her backyard, but that’s exactly what happened in ...

A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered an unusual marble tablet with some characters in Latin ...

An American couple were left gobsmacked after stumbling across an ancient Roman tablet in the garden of their Louisiana home.

A croc bone locked between the 70-million-year-old predator’s jaws gives scientists a rare look into its life and possibly ...

Researchers have discovered ancient time capsules in South America. Specifically, they found amber samples in an Ecuadorian quarry with tiny traces of a 112-million-year-old forest from the ...

This photo provided by researchers in September 2025 shows a Diptera Nematocera fly of the family Chironomidae (non-biting midges) trapped in a Cretaceous-era amber sample discovered in Ecuador.

The discovery in Ecuador of multiple pieces of insect-bearing amber —112 millions of years old—has opened a window to the secrets of a prehistoric forest. At this time, during the Cretaceous era, ...

Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas in 1492 is often presented as a major discovery, but this view obscures a much older reality. Many populations had already set foot on these lands ...

This marks the first time researchers have identified ancient beetles, flies, ants and wasps in fossilized tree resin in South America ... new study. “Amber pieces are little windows into the past,” ...