" And
when Grimaldi compared the ancient mites to their modern day
descendants, he was surprised about how similar they are. Except for
difference in the mouth and fewer legs, "they're dead ringers for
(modern) gall mites," he said." Carl Gallups says: Hmmmmmmm. "Dead ringers for modern gall mites? Geee - wonder why? "
"Fossils never show any significant ‘evolution’—rather, they show that
fossil creatures have no remaining living counterparts (extinction), or
that they have stayed essentially the same (stasis), or have degenerated
(lost information)." Answers in Genesis
By
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found three well preserved ancient insects frozen in amber — and time — in what is Earth's oldest bug trap.
The discoveries of amber-encased insects in Italy may sound like something out of "Jurassic Park"
but these bugs are even older than that. They are about 230 million
years old, which puts them in the Triassic time period, and about 100
million years older than what had been the previously known oldest
critters trapped in fossilized tree resin, or amber. Gooey tree resin is like sap but without water and can't be diluted.
Researchers painstakingly examined 70,000 droplets of amber found in northeastern Italy. Stuck in them were two microscopic mites
and much of one fly. The mites are too small to be seen with the naked
eye and the fly is a tad tinier than a fruit fly, researchers say.
The discovery was reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
While
older insects have been found in rock fossils, these are different
because they are not compressed and better preserved, said study lead
author David Grimaldi, curator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. And you can see more detail, he said.
''That's the great thing about amber. You can make this incredible detailed comparison with living species." Grimaldi said.
And
when Grimaldi compared the ancient mites to their modern day
descendants, he was surprised about how similar they are. Except for
difference in the mouth and fewer legs, "they're dead ringers for
(modern) gall mites," he said. The modern ones can be found in bubbles
or galls on plant leaves.
And that's surprising because the world itself has changed a lot from when these bugs were alive. Back then, there was only one giant continent, some early primitive dinosaurs and no flower plants. Mites now live on flowering plants, but their ancient relatives must have stayed on trees, Grimaldi said.
Derek
Briggs, director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and who
wasn't part of the research, called the bugs' discovery tantalizing,
adding that it could help researchers further understand how life
evolved on land.
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