Tree sap turns table on bug trap plant
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 23:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Some 40 million years ago around the Baltic Sea coast, an insect-killing plant was busy trapping bugs. Its leaves, about as long as a pencil eraser, eventually fell into sticky sap, which hardened to amber and stayed there until miners scooped it up, cut it with a dental drill, polished it up...