For the first time found ticks spider webs in amber pieces
About 99 million years ago a bad tick had suffered a series of consecutive risks.
Ticks fall into a pile of wood ash that will later turn into amber pieces.
Usually, these creatures hide in the vegetation in the hope of "clinging" to a small animal or a furry dinosaur to suck their blood.
But the subject in a recent study by German experts somehow fell into the spider's net, and then the situation got worse: the ticks fell into the wood ash pile later turned into pieces. Amber. Thus the most pitiful situation of the tick has been preserved forever in the piece of amber.
German collector Patrick Müller found a valuable piece of amber containing a tick wrapped in spider web in northern Myanmar. Later, he transferred the newly found items to the Berlin Museum of Natural History.
It is worth noting that this is the first specimen of this type. Previously, scientists had never had a specimen to retain evidence of the interaction of spiders and ticks.
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