Oldest Occurrence of Arthropods Preserved in Amber

RUCKING FETARD

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827180021.htm

An international team of scientists has discovered the oldest record of arthropods -- invertebrate animals that include insects, arachnids, and crustaceans -- preserved in amber. The specimens, one fly and two mites found in millimeter-scale droplets of amber from northeastern Italy, are about 100 million years older than any other amber arthropod ever collected.

Capt'n Midnight

Let's hope there is DNA

living bacteria would be even cooler

Galvasean

Arthropod Park anyone?

Capt'n Midnight

well there was that guy breeding giant dragonflies

Adam Khor

Weren´t there giant dragonflies in Jurassic Park,the novel?

Galvasean

Adam Khor wrote: »

Weren´t there giant dragonflies in Jurassic Park,the novel?

Not that I remember.

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

Not that I remember.

There were

"Two giant red dragonflies with six foot wingspans bummed past them. "What was that?"
"Dragonflies" he said "The Jurassic was a time of huge insects"
"Do they bite?" Lex asked
"I don´t think so" Grant said
Tim held out his hand. One of the dragonflies lighted on it. He could feel the weight of the huge insect.
"He's going to bite you" Lex warned
But the dragongly just slowly flapped its red-veined transparent wings, and then, when Tim moved his arm, flew off again"

There. Six foot dragonflies, no less. Imagine the kind of insects that thrieved in Michael Crichton's idea of the Carboniferous