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Ancient amber offers evidence of oldest orchid fossil

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Ancient amber offers evidence of oldest orchid fossil

Researchers at Oregon State University have found evidence of the oldest orchid fossil on record.

Scientists find ancient, wingless wasp unlike any other

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Scientists find ancient, wingless wasp unlike any other

Scientists say a bizarre, wingless wasp, extinct for millions of years, is unlike any other. Researchers found the species exquisitely preserved in amber.

Beetles pollinated orchids some 20 million years ago

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Beetles pollinated orchids some 20 million years ago

New research proves beetles have been pollinating flowers for at least 20 million years.

Scared out of its skin, ancient insect escaped sticky doom

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Scared out of its skin, ancient insect escaped sticky doom

Fifty million years ago, one lucky insect avoided amber entombment by shedding its skin and getting away, leaving its exoskeleton to be fossilized.

Ancient sap yields new flower species

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Ancient sap yields new flower species

Scientists have discovered a new species of flower encased in 15-million-year-old amber.

Fossilized flea may have carried ancient strain of bubonic plague

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Fossilized flea may have carried ancient strain of bubonic plague

Researchers have discovered a fossilized flea carrying bacteria that appears to be an ancient strain of the bubonic plague.

First-ever salamander in amber discovered in Dominican Republic

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First-ever salamander in amber discovered in Dominican Republic

Salamanders once inhabited the Caribbean. It's a fact scientists arrived at only recently, after discovering the first ever salamander fossilized in amber.

Amber fossil suggests dinosaurs may have eaten ancient LSD

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Amber fossil suggests dinosaurs may have eaten ancient LSD

World's oldest piece of grass found preserved inside an piece of amber unearthed in Myanmar, suggesting dinosaurs tripped on LSD.

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Fossil in amber shows ancient reproduction process of flowering plants

A plant preserved in 100 million-year-old amber has revealed the oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant, U.S. and European researchers say.

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Prehistoric spider attack frozen in time

U.S. researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attacking prey caught in its web, a 100 million-year-old "snapshot."

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These protozoa would die outside of the termite, and the termite would starve if it didn't have the protozoa to aid in digestion
Ancient termite provides look at evolution May 15, 2009

That time frame is just not consistent with the effects of an asteroid impact
Tiny mites may have killed dinosaurs Jan 03, 2008

We don't suggest that the appearance of biting insects and the spread of disease are the only things that relate to dinosaur extinction
Tiny mites may have killed dinosaurs Jan 03, 2008

What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous
Tiny mites may have killed dinosaurs Jan 03, 2008

The chance of these circumstances all coming together at the exact right second was pretty slim
Ancient chemical defense fossil found Aug 30, 2007

George O. Poinar, Jr. (born 1936) is an entomologist and writer. He is known for popularizing the idea of extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber, an idea which received widespread attention when adapted by Michael Crichton for the book and movie Jurassic Park.

Poinar earned a B.S. and M.S. at Cornell University, and remained there for his doctoral studies, receiving a Ph.D. in biology in 1962. He spent many of his years of research at University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Entomology, Division of Insect Pathology.

There, and during travels around the globe, he performed research on the axenic culture of nematodes, nematode parasites of insects and the fossil records of insects and nematodes in amber.

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