Tag Archive for 'Kachin amber'

Ecological reconstruction of Cretaceous insects and insect-pathogenic fungi. An ant is discarding an infected pupa, and an infected fly is located on a distant tree trunk. Image credit: Zhuang et al., doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0407.

Two Species of Parasitic Fungi Found in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber

Jun 27, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

These fossil fungi from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber are from the same family as the zombie-ant fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which has gained widespread...

Sirenobethylus charybdis. Scale bars - 0.5 mm in (A), 0.3 mm in (B), 0.2 mm in (C). Image credit: Wu et al., doi: 10.1186/s12915-025-02190-2.

Bizarre Parasitoid Wasp Species Found Preserved in Kachin Amber

Mar 31, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a paper published in the journal BMC Biology, paleontologists described an extinct species of koinobiont parasitoid wasp found in mid-Cretaceous amber...

Lacewing larvae from 100-million-year-old Kachin amber. Image credit: Haug et al., doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.13509.

Cretaceous-Period Lacewing Larvae Had Sophisticated Eyes

Mar 4, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have found three lacewing larvae with large forward-directed stemmata (eyes in holometabolans) in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from...