Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

Without this single species of tree, the fabulously rich community of ancient life captured in Dominican amber—which includes the largest fossil gathering of land-dwelling invertebrates in a ...

Scientists say they’ve found the tiniest dinosaur ever, and it was encased in amber. The fossil, found in Myanmar, is so small that it’s comparable to the smallest bird species alive today.

Amber and copal are fossilized tree resins prized ... Previous research has described fossil resin formations as products of volatile compound loss and polymerization of resin constituents ...