Scientists found South America’s first insect-bearing amber, a 112-million-year-old time capsule from a lost dinosaur-era forest
- PC: National History MuseumFor more than a century, amber has helped scientists reconstruct vanished worlds by preserving tiny fragments of life that would otherwise have disappeared.
- Insects trapped inside these golden fossilised resins have revealed details about ancient forests across several continents, but South America remained a missing piece in that record.
- That changed with the discovery of amber deposits in central Ecuador containing the first known insect fossils preserved in amber from the continent.
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- PC: National History MuseumFor more than a century, amber has helped scientists reconstruct vanished worlds by preserving tiny fragments of life that would otherwise have disappeared.
- Insects trapped inside these golden fossilised resins have revealed details about ancient forests across several continents, but South America remained a missing piece in that record.
- That changed with the discovery of amber deposits in central Ecuador containing the first known insect fossils preserved in amber from the continent.
Sources: Times of India