Ancient Mystery: European Mosquitos Trapped In Asian Amber
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 11:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A comparison of Baltic Sea region amber with amber from Asia could be significant - rather than being found just in Mecklenburg, Poland or Belarus, European species have been found almost 10,000 kilometers away in Fushun, even though Europe and Asia were divided by the Strait of Turgay, a wide arm of the ocean, 50 million years ago. The pieces from the Baltic region are younger than the ones from Fushun and the assumption has been that this body of saltwater prevented species migrations between the continents. Golden coffin: An insect is trapped in Fushun amber. Credit: (c) Bo Wang / Universität Bonn read more