New species from the past: Baltic amber deposits reveal a new species of flat bug from the genus Aradus
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 09:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A piece of Eocene Baltic Amber of about 45 million years age contains a well preserved extinct flat bug, which turned out to be a new species to science. This exciting discovery is one of the many secrets that deposits of Baltic amber have revealed in the last years and are yet to come in the future. The study describing the new species was published in the open access journal Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift.