Extinct creature trapped for 40 MILLION years in amber discovered – but can you spot doomed animal?

AN EXTINCT creature has been found trapped into amber after nearly 40 million years. The doomed animal – which came from a ...

Unprecedented discovery: Goethe and a 40-million-year-old ant

Use of modern imaging techniques to identify the extinct species Ctenobethylus goepperti and analyze its kinship.

Exceptionally well-preserved ant in Goethe's amber examined

Even some 200 years after his death, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's scientific curiosity continues to yield new insights. This has now been demonstrated by biologists at Friedrich Schiller University ...
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These beetles are entirely dependent on ants for survival. Here's why that's not an evolutionary death sentence

Ant colonies are well-defended fortresses. The social insects quickly sniff out most intruders and kill them to protect their ...
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Stunning amber fossil reveals ‘Last of Us’-type fungus likely lived alongside dinosaurs

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.The insect, along with a ...