99-million-year-old crab discovered trapped inside amber
A 99-million-year-old crab trapped in amber might show us when the shelled animals moved into freshwater
Artistic reconstruction of Cretapsara athanata Franz Anthony/Javier Luque/Harvard University
A tiny crab is the archetypal to beryllium recovered trapped successful amber from the dinosaur era. It lived successful a wood country of South-East Asia 99 cardinal years ago.
Remarkably akin to modern crabs, the 5-millimetre-long crustacean is afloat preserved, making it “the astir implicit crab [fossil] ever discovered”, says Javier Luque astatine Harvard University.
“We are talking astir pristine preservation, arsenic in, not missing a azygous hair,” Luque says. “And adjacent though it’s truthful small, we were capable to spot truthful galore details truthful exquisitely, …
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