A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

A fossil from the late Mesozoic period was discovered in Myanmar, containing an ancient species of firefly that roamed the ...

Firefly fossils are particularly rare, with a solitary example reported previously dated to the Mesozoic era of the dinosaurs 252 to 66 million years ago. The Burmese amber containing the fossil ...

“As well as having their beautiful and striking golden color, these fossils are spectacularly preserved,” study co-author and University of Oxford paleontologist Luke Parry said in a statement. “They ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...

(CNN) — When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the world of today. But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse ...