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 …

Amber from northern Myanmar has been commercially exploited for millennia, and it also
preserves the most diverse palaeobiota among the worlds' seven major deposits of …

The phylum Ascomycota is by far the largest group in the fungal kingdom. Ecologically
important mutualistic associations such as mycorrhizae and lichens have evolved in this …

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 …

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 …

Dinosaur bonebeds with amber content, yet scarce, offer a superior wealth and quality of
data on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. However, the preserved palaeodiversity and/or …

The ant fossil record is summarized with special reference to the earliest ants, first
occurrences of modern lineages, and the utility of paleontological data in reconstructing …