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 […]

Scientists discover over 450 fossilised millipedes in 100-million-year-old amber

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Tagged biodiversity, biogeography, Burmese amber, Cretaceous amber, Diplopoda, fossil species, millipedes, millipiede diversity, Myriapoda, taxonomyLeave a comment

December 19, 2018

Since the success of the Jurassic Park film series, it is widely known that insects from the Age of the Dinosaurs can be found exceptionally well preserved in amber, which is in fact fossilised tree resin. Especially diverse is the animal fauna preserved in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma). Over the last few years, the […]