For 100 million years, amber freezes a tableau of Burmese bugs' life-and-death struggle

For 100 million years, amber freezes a tableau of Burmese bugs' life-and-death struggle

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https://phys.org/news/2018-06-million-years-amber-tableau-burmese.html

Fast-forward 100 million years or so, and that same tick was discovered by a German collector named Patrick Müller who was searching in Myanmar for Burmese amber pieces of scientific value. He passed the discovery on to scientist Jason Dunlop in at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, who realized it was an important specimen.

"Dunlop brought in Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, who is a tick expert at the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, and myself because we've worked together on Burmese amber things," said Paul Selden, distinguished professor of geology at the University of Kansas and director of the Paleontological Institute at the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum.