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95 million-year-old lump of amber with insects, fungi and bacteria found

I am not a paleontologist, but such messages are well for all scientists exciting:

Africa chunks of amber were found, including the organisms of the Cretaceous - Jurassic Park Greetings!

the resin of the tree is unknown information found on fungi, nematodes, spiders, insects and bacteria from a time when dinosaurs still walked the earth and populated long-extinct organisms, land and sea. Created new species slowly - birds, mammals and angiosperms (flowering plants). Perhaps the resin itself is of such a plant: unknown still

"The tree that the sap is produced, but the amber's chemistry is surprisingly very much like that of a group of more recent New World angiosperms called Hymenaea, "says Nascimbene." Amber This could be from an early angiosperm or a previously-unknown conifer that is quite distinct from the other known Cretaceous amber-producing gymnosperms. "

" The first angiosperms, or flowering plants , appeared and diversified in the Cretaceous, "says first author Alexander Schmidt of the University of Gottingen in Germany." Their rise to dominance drastically changed terrestrial ecosystems, and the Ethiopian amber deposit sheds light on this time of change. "

That would be truly a sensation - the first of its kind found object An incredibly valuable insight into one of the most amazing periods of geological history, especially in the evolutionary!. Emergence of flowering plants is hoped that new knowledge.

"Until now, we had discovered virtually no Cretaceous amber sites from the southern hemisphere's Gondwanan supercontinent," says author Paul Nascimbene of the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. "Significant Cretaceous amber deposits had been found Primarily in North America and Eurasia."

were in the amber pieces found over 30 arthropods, different from at least 13 families. Many of the findings thus represent the earliest ever found fossils of the species found in Africa dar. Among other things, wasps, dust, insects, moths, beetles, ants and the rare primitive Zoraptera . The Cretaceous period ended known at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary about 65 million years ago, when Dino Auer died out and the entire ecosystem of the Earth has been turned on its head.

international and interdisciplinary research in the area and now the amber findings will be further investigated. Publication is now a first paper in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


(via the Daily Galaxy stumbleupon via via via Casey Kazan materials provided by American Museum of Natural History)