Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

Ocean waves dislodged the silt and exposed the amber. Around the fossil now lived an array of sea creatures. Crabs scampered over the resin graveyard, fish swam up and nudged amber nuggets ...

Even in amber fossils, that's a rarity. We also found a true biting midge that's still around today ( Austroconops ). It's ...