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Fossil Cockroach Found in Baltic Amber – Geology In
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The piece weighs about seven grams.The insect is preserved in a 41x21 mm amber piece.
A drop of 99 million years old amber has preserved an ancient fly in a striking way: with the fruitful body, similar to a mushroom, of a “zombi” fungus sprouting from its head. The insect, along with a second specimen of a young ant infected with a similar fungus, are two of the oldest examples of a strange natural phenomenon in which fungal parasites take over the body of their hosts before killing them. “Amber gives us the opportunity to visua…
Fossil Cockroach Found in Baltic Amber – Geology In
Cockroach Fossil Found in Baltic Amber in Kaliningrad, Estimated at 35–40 Million Years Old.Fossilized cockroach preserved in Eocene Baltic amber.Photo by: © Kaliningrad Amber Plant.A 35–40 million-year-old cockroach fossil has been unearthed in Baltic amber during routine sorting at the Kaliningrad Amber Combine’s Primorsky quarry, the world’s largest industrial amber deposit. This exceptional specimen—encased in a 41 × 21 mm, 7 g piece of amb…
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