The inclusions are so faint in the unpolished amber that Goethe, despite his interest in observing nature, likely never realized he had insects preserved inside what amount to biological time capsules ...

Even some 200 years after his death, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's scientific curiosity continues to yield new insights. This has now been demonstrated by biologists at Friedrich Schiller University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the world of today. But there were also some ...

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 ...

AN EXTINCT creature has been found trapped into amber after nearly 40 million years. The doomed animal – which came from a legendary poet’s private collection – is so perfectly preserved ...

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