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Discovery of insects trapped in amber sheds light on ancient Amazon rainforest
Researchers uncovered 60 amber samples with 21 fossil inclusions representing five insect orders, revealing a humid, resinous forest ecosystem from 112 million years ago in South America.
- The discovery in Ecuador of fossilized tree resin containing insect fossils over 100 million years old provides insight into the prehistoric Amazon rainforest.
- Researchers identified fossils of flies, beetles, ants, wasps, and spider webs in the amber, representing the first time such insects have been found fossilized in South American amber.
- The analysis suggests the ancient rainforest contained ferns, conifers like the Monkey Puzzle Tree, and hosted evolving plant-insect interactions during the dinosaur era, though the modern rainforest is quite different.
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»It was the time when the relationship between flowering plants and insects began«: scientists are fascinated by amber finds in Ecuador, including more than 100 million years old insects.
·Germany
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Stunning amber deposits hold insects from the time of the dinosaurs
A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago
·Baltimore, United States
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