Sunday, 5 May 2019

99-million-year-old, unknown millipede found trapped in Burmese amber

The newly described millipede, Burmanopetalum inexpectatum, preserved in amber

Picking up where the Jurassic period left off, the Cretaceous is best known as the last hoorah for the dinosaurs. As far as insects are concerned, it gave us ants, termites, aphids and the explosion of pollinators that coincided with the development of flowering plants. But, ironically, the prehistoric-looking millipedes of the order Callipodida, are thought to have come later. Until now.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2vHmFqY

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