A Romanian grandma used a strange rock as a doorstop for decades. It turned out to be a million-dollar relic from the age of dinosaurs
An elderly woman unknowingly held a prehistoric gem worth over $1 million in her home
Tag: amber
Jurassic Park inspires amber-like DNA digital data storage
This could bring us a step closer to using DNA as the ultimate hard drive.
Fossil Friday: Early-sprouting pine cone preserved in amber
Early birds get fossilized!
Fossil Friday: amphibian trapped in amber is the first known ‘tongue-thrower’
The fossils were at first (mistakenly) identified as being an ancient chameleon.
Researchers extract DNA from insects embedded in resin
"We have no intention of raising dinosaurs," the researchers assure us.
Amazing mold pigs trapped in 30-million-year-old amber
Water bears are cool but have you heared about mold pigs?
Fossil Friday: bird encased in amber has an unique, “extreme” toe
The bird's hyper-elongated third toe is longer than its whole lower leg, the authors report.
The unlikeliest catch: sea creatures found trapped in amber
Talk about a stunning find!
Fossil Friday: earliest known millipede found in piece of Burmese amber
It's nearly 100 million years old.
First-ever baby snake fossil discovered beautifully encased in amber
Poor baby snake!
A 99-million-year-old amber fossil preserved the earliest frog from tropical forests
Very rare insight into the ancient lives of frogs.
Ancient amber reveals that ticks dined on feathered dinosaurs, too
No respite from the bite.
Baby bird trapped in stunning pristine condition inside 100-million-year-old amber
An extremely rare find.
Insect courtship behavior trapped in 100-million-year-old amber
It's Romeo and Juliet on steroids, with geology.
Amber reveals ancient insect that was literally scared out of its skin
After leaving its exoskeleton behind, the insect narrowly avoided amber entombment.
Fossil Friday: Diptera brachycera in amber
Diptera are still alive and kickin' today, and some of them are getting coated in amber as we speak! A ...
30 million year-old plants found in amber [awesome pics]
We've seen unfortunate insects trapped in amber time and time again, but this time it's something else. This time, a ...
Flea trapped in amber for 20 million years might hold earliest evidence of bubonic plague
Paleontologists believe they have found the oldest evidence of the bubonic plague, embedded in a flea trapped in amber for ...
Scientists find Salamander in Amber in the Caribbean
Finding insects, plants or even dinosaur feathers trapped in amber s rare and exciting. But finding a fossil salamander in ...
Predatory cockroach found in 100 million year old amber
Geologists have found a praying-mantis-like cockroach that lived at the side by side with the dinosaurs, 100 million years ago, during the ...
Dinosaurs lived in low-oxygen world, amber shows
An international team of researchers led by Ralf Tappert, from the University of Innsbruck, reconstructed the composition of Earth's atmosphere ...
First fossilized mosquito is still full of blood
Finding mosquitoes trapped in amber is truly exciting, but it's not really unique - there have been several reported cases ...
16 million year old springtail hitchhiked on the wings of mayflies
(Photo : Dr. Dave Penney/The University of Manchester) A springtail can be seen resting on this adult mayfly's back. We ...
