50 million year old mite attached to ant head found in piece of amber
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 07:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org) —A small team of researchers with members from several countries has identified the oldest known instance of a type of mite fossil. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the team describes how they obtained a piece of amber with an ant embedded inside of it along with a mite that was attached to the ant's head, and what their work revealed.