Courtship cut short for termites trapped in 38 million-year-old amber fossil
Amber containing a pair of termites pulled from a Russian mine reveals their mating behavior hasn't changed for tens of millions of years.
Source: livescience.com
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New Kind of Silverfish in Resin | Evolution News
These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy.
Source: evolutionnews.org
30-Million-Year-Old Fossil Bug in Baltic Amber Reveals Mantis-Like Characteristics
Scientists discovered a fossil bug in Baltic Amber 30 million years back, and believed it to be a result of what's known as convergent evolution. The fossil showed grasping or raptorial legs, looking remarkably like a praying mantis.
Source: natureworldnews.com
Fossil Friday: Early-sprouting pine cone preserved in amber
Early birds get fossilized!
Source: zmescience.com
Newly discovered miocene biome sheds light on rainforest evolution
Credit: NIGPAS An international research group led by Prof. WANG Bo and Prof. SHI Gongle from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) collected approximately 25,000 fossil-containing amber samples and about 5,000 fossil plants in Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, southeast China from 2010 to 2019. Their findings were published in Science Advances on April 30. The Zhangpu biota, including amber biota and co-occurring megafossils, is the richest tropical seasonal rainforest biota discovered so far. It reveals that extraordinary species div...
Source: eurekalert.org