When we think of fossils, we tend to imagine the strong, sturdy bones of dinosaurs and the hard, calcified shells of ammonites. Most of us do not picture the delicately preserved petals of an ancient ...

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Researchers have discovered a dinosaur tail complete with its feathers trapped in a piece of amber. The finding reported in Current Biology on December 8 helps to fill in details of the dinosaurs' ...

When it comes to dinosaurs, many of us think of towering skeletons dominating the atriums of the world’s great natural history museums. But it’s the tiniest fossils that have transformed paleontology ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.The insect, along with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fungus can be seen growing out of the head of a fly encased in 99 million-year-old amber. - Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...