Discovery of insects trapped in amber shed

Scientists have discovered the first time in Amber in Amber in South America, which has provided a new glimpse of life on Earth at a time when flower plants began to divert and spread only around the world.

“Many samples found in sand stone excavation in Ecuador have a history of 112 million years ago,” said Fabini Herira, co -operative author of the Journal on Thursday. Communication Earth and Environment.

For the past 130 million years, almost all the well -known Amber reserves have been in the northern hemisphere, and it has long been “a secret” that scientists have found some in the southern regions that once consisted of Super West Gondwana, a specialist in the American Museum of Natural History.

For the first time, researchers have identified ancient beetles, ants, ants and ruins in the Foslamed Treas, who were not even a new expert at Oxford University, Oxford University, Oxford University, Oxford University Museum of Natural History Expert, Ricardo Perez La Funer.

“Amber pieces of amber are small windows of the past,” said Perez La Funer.

Researchers exposed hundreds of pieces of amber, some in Ecuador had ancient insects, jirgas and trees on the excavation of a sand stone, which is on the banks of the Amazon basin today.

Herira said, but the forest of today’s rain is very different from the dinosaur. Based on the analysis of Jovashim in Amber, the ancient rains consisted of francs and confirmed species, including an extraordinary monkey puzzle tree, which is no longer growing in Amazonia.

“It was a different type of forest,” said Herira.

Amber’s reserves were previously known to geologists and miners who worked in Geneva’s mine. Study co -authored Carlos Jarimello first heard about them at the Tropical Research Institute of Smithsinia a decade ago and came out to find a precise location with the help of geology field notes.

“I went there and I realized that this place was amazing,” said Jarimilo. “The mines have a lot of amber,” and it looks much more in the open excavation when it is hidden in the dense layers of the plants.

Researchers will continue to analyze Amber Truvo to learn more about the biological diversity of the Critisis era, which played an important role in the evolutionary by feeding floral plants, including pests. “Amber is a tendency to preserve things that are small,” said Graemeldi.

“This is the time when the relationship between floral plants and insects began,” said Perez La Funer. “And it turned out to be one of the most successful partnerships of nature.”

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