First microwhip scorpion from Mesozoic period found in Burmese amber
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 15:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It's smaller than a grain of rice, yellowish, trapped in amber and lived 100 million years ago alongside dinosaurs. Meet Electrokoenenia yaksha, a newly described type of microwhip scorpion, or palpigrade, from Myanmar, whose minute fossilized remains have been found, trapped in Burmese amber.