Dominican amber preserves a 16-million-year-old ant queen, marking the first fossil evidence of Hypoponera in the Americas.

This new series of photographs captures the vastness of Earth in ancient rock formations, natural weathering, tiny crystals, coastlines and gems of amber. But it’s also about the traces of family ...

A team of paleontologists led by Chinese scientists has discovered the first known evidence of a bone tumor in a lizard preserved in Cretaceous-period amber, shedding new light on the prevalence of ...

Fourth-graders Kenya Lemus Zurita, right, and Junia Sailer demonstrate how to make a fossil cast. Kelloggsville — When fourth-grader Jackie Escobargobar turned a golden, semi-tr ...

Here’s the deal: you live in Virginia, which means you have access to one of the most spectacular underground attractions on ...

So here’s the situation: you live in Virginia, which gives you access to one of the most spectacular underground attractions ...

Researchers studied six pieces of amber containing fossilized ants with other insects nearby revealing an ecosystem in the ...

Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other ...

Ants and other species who lived alongside dinosaurs but preserved in fossilized tree resin reveal a great deal about their ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.