This is the first large discovery of insect-laden amber in South America, and it gives great insights into Cretaceous life in ...

This pair of extinct E. affinis termites was trapped in tree resin almost 40 million years ago and preserved until today in a Baltic amber fossil. “Termite fossils are very common, but this piece was ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close inspection did researchers realize something far more unsettling was preserved with ...