Day: August 28, 2012

Triassic amber yields ‘ancient mites’

By Jonathan Ball | BBC News – Science & Enviornment | August 12, 2012 Some of the earliest fossils of pre-historic arthropods – dating to about 230 million years ago – have been discovered entombed in amber, PNAS journal reports. Arthropods – a highly diverse family of invertebrates, which includes insects, arachnids and crustacea – constitute