Close-Up Showing Slime Mold in Amber (IMAGE)

University of Göttingen

Close-Up Showing Slime Mold in Amber

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Group of several fruiting bodies of a slime mould (myxomycetes), around 2.5 millimetres long, in amber, which is about 100 million years old, from Myanmar: long-stalked fruiting bodies support the distribution of the spores, then as now.

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Alexander Schmidt, University of Göttingen and <em>Scientific Reports</em>

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