Dwarfs under dinosaur legs: 99-million-year-old millipede discovered in Burmese amber

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Tagged arthropods, biodiversity, Burmese amber, callipodida, Cretaceous amber, Diplopoda, evolutionary ecology, fossil specimens, invertebrates, micro-computed tomography, micro-CT, millipede, millipedes, Myriapoda, new species, taxonomyLeave a comment

May 2, 2019

A 3D reconstruction of the fossil allowed for the description of an entirely new suborder Even though we are led to believe that during the Cretaceous the Earth used to be an exclusive home for fearsome giants, including carnivorous velociraptors and arthropods larger than a modern adult human, it turns out that there was still […]

Life in marine driftwood: The case of driftwood specialist talitrids

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Tagged adaptation, Amphipoda, amphipods, biodiversity, biology, driftwood, driftwood hoppers, evolution, evolutionary ecology, marine driftwood, talitridsLeave a comment

December 20, 2017

Driftwood in the sea – either floating or stranded on beaches – is a common feature particularly in temperate regions. Large quantities of driftwood, termed driftwood depositories, may collect at the mouth of small streams associated with marshes and have been present for some 120 millennia – since the origin of flowering plants. Once marine […]