South American scientists are using biotechnology traditionally used to prevent crop infestation to stop the destruction of painting and other works of art caused by tropical bacteria and insects.

Inclusions in amber can preserve organisms' organs, tissues and cells in high fidelity, and are known as "exceptionally preserved" fossils. Amber inclusions are commonly thought to be mummified ...

Often referred to as the ‘gold of the North’, Baltic amber serves as an exceptional natural time capsule, preserving a fascinating variety of flora and fauna. Cutting-edge scientific discoveries ...

In an Ecuadorian quarry, researchers have uncovered an exceptional fossil treasure: 112-million-year-old amber containing perfectly preserved insects. This discovery opens a unique window onto the ...

Amber deposits have yielded an unparalleled record of Cretaceous and Palaeogene insects, preserving both delicate morphological features and ecological interactions in three dimensions. Phylogenetic ...

Hough, Walter. 1887. "The preservation of museum specimens from insects and the effects of dampness." In Report of the United States National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1887 (Pt. 2 of the ...

Reconstructing the sounds of extinct animals is difficult because the soft tissues involved in producing them rarely survive.

Justi, Silvia A. and Linton, Yvonne-Marie. 2020. [Dataset] From e-voucher to genomic data: extracting sequencing data and preserving archive insect specimen access using medically important mosquitoes ...

Traits are often lost during evolution, either because they are no longer beneficial or because they are too costly to maintain. When this happens, it is generally believed that the genes underlying ...