A 40 million-year-old sex act is frozen in time

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 19:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Forty million years ago, a female mite met an attractive partner, grabbed him with her clingy rear end and began to mate — just before a blob of tree resin fell on the couple, preserving the moment for eternity.

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