Sea creatures and land insects found together in ancient amber

Amber can be a veritable treasure trove of ancient animals and insects, but it most commonly captures creatures that lived in forests – understandable, given the stuff starts life as tree sap. But now researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) have found a piece of amber bearing a strange mix of land and sea-dwelling creatures.

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Category: Science

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• Amber
• Animals
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Fossils
• Insect
• Marine Biology
• Paleontology

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2Yt0MIt