A New 105 Million-Year-Old Wasp Wasp Discovered in El Soplao

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An international team of researchers has described a new species of fossil wasp in the amber field of the cave of El Soplao, located in Cantabria, from around...

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A group of scientists describes a new fossil species, large and preserved in the resin of the Cantabrian cave for 105 million years. It is the 'Creventania orgonomecorum'

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An international team of researchers has described a new species of fossil wasp of the genus Cretevania in the amber field of El Soplao. The finding, published in the scientific journal Palaeoentomology, provides key information on the diversity of insects during the Cretaceous and reinforces the importance of the Cantabrian enclave as a global reference for the study of fossil amber.The new species, called Cretevania orgonomecorum, comes from a…