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In 2015, two researchers stumbled across a piece of amber jewelry in a market in Tengchong, China, that was found by miners in Myanmar. The piece has a young, five-millimeter-long crab embedded in it. That crab would be a major discovery in the study of crab evolution. A research team dedicated to the little crab […]
Fossils trapped in amber provide a unique snapshot of the anatomy, biology, and ecology of extinct organisms. The most common fossils found in amber
Discovered in Myanmar, the fossil is preserved at the Longyin Amber Museum in China's Yunnan and is the most complete crab fossil discovered to date.
The pristine fossil fills huge gaps in the fossil record, explaining how early crabs left the ocean for land.
Not only is it extremely well conserved, but also it is the first crab from the dinosaur era preserved in amber