Discovering fossil ants 52 million years ago in India

Among the newly discovered fossils in western India there is a fossil ant located in amber 52 million years ago. Fossil treasures are in amber including bees, ants, mosquitoes, flies, termites and other insects typical of the Eocene period, according to reports of paleontologists published in the Proceedings of the Proceedings. of the National Academy of Sciences on October 25, 2010.

The more diverse collection is being researched and recorded by the research team led by Jes Rust, working at The University of Bonn University, Germany and David Grimaldi, working at The American Museum of Natural History, New York City, United States.

At the time of the formation of amber, India only ended a long period of isolation: The geological tectonic containing India separated from Madagascar at about 40 million this time and was about to collide with the Asian plate to will eventually form the Himalayas (Himalayas).

According to the researchers, the restriction on biodiversity in India is due to being quarantined over a period of 40 million years due to changes in geological tectonics, we see the same thing today Australia. However, due to the relatively wide range of species in the fossils found in amber, it is not always shown that isolated continents also lead to biological sparsity.

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