A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists say.

Million-Year-Old Firefly-Like Fossil Trapped in Amber, Scientists Reveal It Is Unexpected New Species From Dinosaur Era A fossil from the late Mesozoic period was discovered in Myanmar, containing an ...

The fossil represents the hollow body of the insect that is so fragile that any attempt to remove it from the amber can turn ...

Dr. Ales Bucek, currently the head of the Laboratory of insect symbiosis at the ... scientific value of this piece of amber when he saw it in an e-shop for fossil collectors.

“As well as having their beautiful and striking golden color, these fossils are spectacularly preserved,” study co-author and University of Oxford paleontologist Luke Parry said in a statement. “They ...

David Grimaldi has traveled in 40 countries on 6 continents, collecting and studying recent species of insects and conducting fossil excavations. He is the author of Amber: Window to the Past (Abrams, ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly ... Cai also helped to identify from Burmese amber in 2021 — due to the fossilized insect’s unique serrate antennae that modern ...

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists say. Several deepsea fish, mushrooms and insects are capable of ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly ... Cai also helped to identify from Burmese amber in 2021 — due to the fossilized insect's unique serrate antennae that modern fireflies ...