The age of the resin in this case, however, could not be determined, said Poinar, an international expert in using plant and animal life forms preserved in amber to learn about the biology and ...

Fossil resins, particularly amber, are valuable materials that provide insights into ancient ecosystems and the history of plant life. Recent research has focused on characterizing these resins ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

The ancient pieces of hardened tree resin, known as amber ... ways thanks to the fossilized bones, plants, and parasites lurking in the fossil record. And as for which one deserves a place ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...

Newly discovered fossils matched up with a mysterious “alien plant” species found in 1969 and brought it to clearer life. It’s even stranger than scientists initially thought it was. Researchers first ...

Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved ... oldest and only-described fossil of an Electrotermes ...

Under certain conditions fossils might ... dead animals and plants can be preserved in amber, peat bogs, tar pits, or in ice. Amber close amberHardened tree resin. is a substance that is formed ...