<i>A. burmitina</i> in Amber (IMAGE)

Indiana University

<i>A. burmitina</i> in Amber

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This is A. burmitina in amber. The 99-million-year-old fossil, recovered from a mine in northern Myanmar, also contains 62 pollen grains from a eudicot flower. It is the earliest known physical evidence of insect pollination.

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Photo courtesy the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology.

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