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In an Ecuadorian quarry, researchers have uncovered an exceptional fossil treasure: 112-million-year-old amber containing perfectly preserved insects. This discovery opens a unique window onto the ...

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod (the group that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have ...

When we think of pollinating insects, bees, butterflies, or flies usually come to mind—but rarely true bugs. Yet it seems that in the past, they also played an important role in plant pollination. A ...

A collection of insects that lived 112 million years ago has been discovered trapped in amber in Ecuador, giving scientists a ...

An international team of scientists working in Italy have found the oldest samples of arthropods preserved in amber — a finding that is 100 million years older than previous fossilized samples. The ...

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Preserved insects at the New York State Museum on June 16 in Albany. Timothy McCabe, the state entomologist, points to preserved insects at the state museum on June 16 in Albany. A tarantula preserved ...