<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><i style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">The Nat Geo article here is based on a recently-published PNAS picked up an article that expounds upon the strange discovery of a marine organism alongside terrestrial arthorpods (including Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera spp.)...Links to the full Nat Geo story and the PNAS articles are below.</font></i><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="4"><b>This ancient sea creature fossilized in tree resin. How'd that happen?</b></font></div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">In what may be a first of its kind, a lump of amber has preserved the shell of an ammonite and other shoreline life in stunning detail.</font><div><br></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">National Geographic</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><div>BY MICHAEL GRESHKO</div><div>PUBLISHED MAY 13, 2019</div></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><div>NINETY-NINE MILLION YEARS ago in what's now Myanmar, a glob of tree resin oozed onto a beach. Today, the resulting fossilized lump of amber is giving scientists an astonishing glimpse into life on a Cretaceous coastline.</div><div><br></div><div>In a study published Monday in the journal PNAS, researchers led by Chinese paleontologist Tingting Yu reveal what is likely the first known record of an ammonite found in amber. These extinct marine mollusks were ancient relatives of octopuses and squid, and they didn't venture on land. Finding an ammonite shell in a land-formed fossil is therefore as eyebrow-raising as finding dinosaur remains on the bottom of an ancient seafloor.</div></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/ancient-ammonite-fossilized-in-tree-resin-burmese-amber/" target="_blank">Read the full Nat Geo story</a></font></div></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/05/09/1821292116" target="_blank">The PNAS article</a></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_3157892265171217416gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Patricia
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