Fungus gnat entombed in a 40-million-year-old piece of amber is a rare gem
This confirmed that the piece is from Baltic amber. Thereafter, they examined the fossil and determined the species of insect ...
Fossil insects help to reconstruct the past—how I ended up studying them (and you can too)
Researchers who study fossil insects preserved in rock or amber deposits are called palaeoentomologists—and I'm one of very ...
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15-million-year-old insects stun scientists with their unusual traits
Ancient New Zealand insect fossils reveal new genus of whitefly and first psyllid wing, enriching knowledge of Miocene ...
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Becoming a Fossil:
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 ...