A study published this week showed how DNA could be extracted from bugs trapped in resin. If that sounds familiar, you've likely seen the film Jurassic Park. Before now, the business "Mr. DNA" speaks ...

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 ...

Scientists who extracted genetic material from an insect preserved in resin, for the purposes of a newly published study, are aware of the Jurassic Park overtones of what they're doing but assure the ...

Casting a murder hornet in epoxy resin. Murder Hornets, aka Asian Giant Hornets are the largest of all hornets at 2 inches in length. Today I’m encasing this murder hornet in epoxy resin using casting ...

Scientists have successfully extracted DNA from insects trapped in amber. But before you start dreaming of a certain park, there’s one huge caveat to mention – any creatures you might revive from this ...

For the longest time, South America's amber deposits lacked one thing, and one thing in particular, and that's bugs. But a September 2025 study in Communications Earth & Environment describes the ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Everyone has that magpie friend, the one who can’t leave the house without collecting every plant or rock that strikes their fancy. These are the people for whom we save a beautiful dead ...

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...