Picture a bird hatching from an egg and falling ou...  ...ion years, and that bird, now a fossil encased in amber , was found and taken to the Hupoge Amber Museum in Tengchong City, China.Unlike modern bir...

More and more evidence of feathered dinosaurs come...  ...began digging through large museum collections of amber searching for tiny pieces of feathers that no one...  ...researchers combed through thousands of minuscule amber nuggets from nearly 80 million years ago. Among t...  ...others designed to dive. And...

Image: Oregon State University En...  ...extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber and inspired Michael Crichton's book an...  ...nd world expert on insects trapped in amber . He outlined the findings in a new pu...

The images to your left, dear Neatoraman...  ...arachnids, and crustaceans) preserved in amber : Even though arthropods are more...  ..., the oldest record of the animals in amber dates to about 130 million years. The...  ...ars. They are the first arthropods to...

Hipsters may consider dogboarding to be way co...  ...spider embedded in a 44 million year old piece of amber . "And there, latched onto its underside just as...

You may well be thinking 'The mystery of what?' but resin (the type from trees) is still something of a mystery. The jury is still out about why exactly plants secrete (or excrete, depending on what side of the argument...