Tree resins are among nature’s most intriguing gifts. Prized for their scent, versatility, and symbolism, they’ve played important roles in cultures around the world. Here’s a closer look at what they ...

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For many thousands of years, the fossilized tree resin known as amber has entranced jewelry makers and inspired the scientific imagination. For the past 200 years especially, paleontologists around ...

Movie prop used by Sir Richard Attenborough in the film Jurassic Park on view at the Amazing Amber exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2013. Somewhere in South America, a miner finds a piece of ...

Researchers have detected DNA from ambrosia beetles that were trapped in recent tree resin for less than seven years. The phenomenon of using DNA from old fossils preserved in amber already inspired ...