Scientists Discover 40-Million-Year-Old Ant Hidden in Historic Amber Collection

Advanced imaging revealed previously unseen fossil insects inside amber from Goethe’s collection. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the celebrated German writer and thinker, also built a personal collection of natural objects during his lifetime. One part of that legacy is an amber set now cared for by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar at the Goethe National Museum: […]Science,Amber,Evolutionary Biology,Fossils,Friedrich Schiller University Jena,Paleontology#Scientists #Discover #40MillionYearOld #Ant #Hidden #Historic #Amber #Collection1769710931