Amber pieces with trapped fossils are windows to the past which sometimes shock us with revealing images of life on Earth. Now, a scientific team describes the first insect record -specifically beetles- trapped in amber pieces about 99 million years ago while these pollinized gymnosperm and angiosperm plants simultaneously, which was not described until now in the scientific bibliography.

Among the participants in the study, published in the journal iScience, are Professor Xavier Delclòs, from the Faculty of Earth Sciences and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the UB, and researcher David Peris, first author of the study and postdoc at the University of Bonn (Germany), with a PhD from the University of Barcelona.

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