In a paper published online in the journal Palaeodiversity, Oregon State University’s Professor George Poinar Jr. described a new family, genus and species of pollen-collecting bee found in a piece of 99-million-year-old amber (mid-Cretaceous period) excavated from a mine in Myanmar. Bees are an important component in the evolutionary history and diversification of flowering plants … Continue reading 99-Million-Year-Old Bee Found Encased in Burmese Amber