Amber is fossilised plant resin. It can be used to provide insights into the terrestrial
conditions at the time the original resin was exuded. Amber research thus can inform many …

Amber is fossilized resin that preserves biological remains in exceptional detail, study of
which has revolutionized understanding of past terrestrial organisms and habitats from the …

During the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum [MMCO,~ 14 to 17 million years (Ma) ago], global
temperatures were similar to predicted temperatures for the coming century. Limited …

Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

Сomparative analysis of arthropod assemblages found in Cretaceous fossil resins is
provided. Arthropod-bearing Cretaceous resin sites are reviewed, and a list of arthropod …

Time and again, over hundreds of millions of years, environmental disturbances have
caused mass extinctions of animals ranging from reptiles to corals. The anthropogenic loss …

The occurrence of arthropods in amber exclusively from the Cretaceous and Cenozoic is
widely regarded to be a result of the production and preservation of large amounts of tree …

Taxa within diverse lineages select and transport exogenous materials for the purposes of
camouflage. This adaptive behavior also occurs in insects, most famously in green lacewing …

Across terrestrial ecosystems, modern ants are ubiquitous. As many as 94 out of every 100
individual arthropods in rainforests are ants [1], and they constitute up to 15% of animal …

The dominance of ants in the terrestrial biosphere has few equals among animals today, but
this was not always the case. The oldest ants appear in the fossil record 100 million years …