Fossilized tree sap, called amber, is an absolutely amazing substance. It lasts for an incredibly long time and it has yielded some of the most incredible fossil discoveries of our time. If you need ...

Fossilized tree sap, called amber, is an absolutely amazing substance. It lasts for an incredibly long time, and it has yielded some of the most incredible fossil discoveries of our time. If you need ...

Why does tree sap turn into amber? -- Jevon Williams, 8, Washington Amber is actually made of resin, a different tree goo altogether. While sap is watery and flows through a tree the way blood flows ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A host of bugs, fungus and other life forms have been found trapped in amber from the time of the ...

A spectacular piece of swirling colors known as the Blue Dragon that was discovered in Myanmar sold for $6.5 million.

Michael Benton receives funding from NERC and the Leverhulme Trust. Fossilised amber is like a time capsule, a snapshot into a world millions of years old, and ancient creatures discovered in this ...

They probably never saw it coming. Minding their business, swimming around and then suddenly, their lives end in sticky resin from high up in a tree. Bodies of freshwater creatures found frozen in ...

Some 40 million years ago around the Baltic Sea coast, an insect-killing plant was busy trapping bugs. Its leaves, about as long as a pencil eraser, eventually fell into sticky sap, which hardened to ...