Rare Fossils in Amber Raise Questions About Secret Lives of Cretaceous Insects

Insects play a critical role in ecosystems but, because they are so rarely preserved as fossils, it’s hard to study their roles from habitats millions of years old. But fossilized tree resin can occasionally preserve an insect within its amber, freezing a moment in time. Most rare of all is when the moment in amber […] The post Rare Fossils in Amber Raise Questions About Secret Lives of Cretaceous Insects appeared first on Good News Network.