98-million-year-old amber discovered in Myanmar — with a new species inside. See it
The millipede family Siphonorhinidae, of which the new species is an ancient ancestor, still lives today and includes four ...
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A Tiny Amphibian Trapped in Amber Is a New Species
The salamander managed to escape but then must have fallen into a pool of tree resin, which preserved the tiny amphibian as it hardened into amber. George Poinar, Jr., a biologist at Oregon State ...
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Scientists Find Previously Unknown Species Of Millipede Preserved In Burmese Amber For 99 Million Years
Leif MoritzThe 99-million-year-old millipede fossilized in Burmese amber. The examination of a 99 million-year-old fossilized ...
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'Frozen behaviors' in amber fossils: How to reconstruct mating behavior of long-extinct termites
Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved in fossilized amber. This, so far, oldest and only ...
Australian amber has revealed 'living fossils' traced back to Gondwana 42 million years ago
Amber acts like a time capsule, capturing tiny animals, plants and even microorganisms ... preserved just as they were when ...