This confirmed that the piece is from Baltic amber. Thereafter, they examined the fossil and determined the species of insect. This part of the process took place by closely studying the males ...

Researchers who study fossil insects preserved in rock or amber deposits are called palaeoentomologists—and I'm one of very ...

of a beetle fossilized in Burmese amber together with grains of cycad pollen reveals that the relationship between these plants and insects may have begun long before the 99-million-year-old fossil ...

Dr. Ales Bucek, currently the head of the Laboratory of insect symbiosis at the ... scientific value of this piece of amber when he saw it in an e-shop for fossil collectors.

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on fossil leaves from South America that is nearly identical to what is seen today on those trees’ living relatives in Australia.