Amber is amazing stuff! It can preserve organisms whole, and essentially freeze them in time, and the specimens we’ve found in it so far range from amazing to downright bizarre. Here are six of the coolest things we’ve found trapped in amber.
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Sources:
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/amber.html
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/24696/paleo_Labandeira_Paleont._Soc._Pap._2014.pdf
Carnivorous plant:
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/1/190.abstract
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/212/19/3184
Dino feathers:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6049/1619.full
Flea:
https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2015/sep/bacteria-ancient-flea-may-be-ancestor-black-death
https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/52/6/1234/869360
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150915141145.htm
Salamander:
http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/08/03Palaeodiversity_8-15_Poinar-Wake_4.pdf
https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2015/aug/first-ever-discovery-salamander-amber-sheds-light-evolution-caribbean-islands
https://www.cnet.com/news/ancient-salamander-in-amber-is-a-scientific-surprise/
Bat flies:
https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2012/feb/battle-vampires-20-million-years-ago
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-3305-4-229
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46256764/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/first-fossil-vampire-bat-fly-discovered/#.XYvTledKjOQ
IMAGE SOURCES:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gouttes-drops-resine-2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baltic_amber_inclusions_-_Ant_(Hymenoptera,_Formicidae)8.JPG
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/1/190/F3.large.jpg
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/1/190/F2.large.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pameridea_marlothi_Rebelo_1.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drosera_capensis_bend.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pameridea.jpg
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6049/1619
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sinosauropteryx_with_Dalinghosaurus.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sinornithosaurus.jpg
https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/27495606/tjv134f1p.tiff
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1186%2F1756-3305-4-229/MediaObjects/13071_2011_474_MOESM1_ESM.jpeg
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1186%2F1756-3305-4-229/MediaObjects/13071_2011_474_MOESM2_ESM.jpeg
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1186%2F1756-3305-4-229/MediaObjects/13071_2011_474_MOESM3_ESM.jpeg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/20036776643/in/photostream/
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