Historic haul of Australian amber fossils includes ants, spiders and fornicating flies


April 3, 2020

At least this pair did — until they were suffocated in a glob of tree resin around 40 million years ago.

These flies are locked in amorous embrace, looking just the way they did when they died.

They are part of giant haul of the oldest fossilised resin, or amber, to be found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to researchers whose findings are published today in the journal Scientific Reports.

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