A 100-million-year-old crab found beautifully preserved in amber is shedding new light on this iconic group of animals. New research in Science Advances describes the first known fossil crab from the ...

In 2015, two researchers stumbled across a piece of amber jewelry in a market in Tengchong, China, that was found by miners in Myanmar. The piece has a young, five-millimeter-long crab embedded in it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A remarkably preserved crab trapped in amber is forcing ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

Fossils of the earliest "modern-looking" crabs were discovered in tree amber, estimated by scientists to date back 100 million years – the most complete crustacean fossil ever preserved in amber.

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 ...

An ancient crustacean found in amber, little more than a fossilized speck, may reveal a critical point in the evolutionary history of one of Earth’s most versatile animals: crabs. This ...

This pair of E. affinis termites was trapped in tree resin almost 40 million years ago and preserved until today in a Baltic amber fossil. Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the ...