In the quiet layers of rock, footprints, bones, and leaves tell a story of worlds lost, and of our own uncertain future. The ...

Insects in 112-million-year-old amber from Ecuador reveal a prehistoric rainforest and new clues about South America’s ...

From feathered dinosaurs to frozen mammoths, fossils keep upending science with discoveries that rewrite the history of life.

The discovery in Ecuador of multiple pieces of insect-bearing amber —112 millions of years old—has opened a window to the ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along with a ...

When it comes to dinosaurs, many of us think of towering skeletons dominating the atriums of the world's great natural history museums. But it's the tiniest fossils that have transformed paleontology ...

A widely viewed social media post wondered why the discovery of a dinosaur tail in amber wasn't making headlines in 2025. It's a decade old.