Ancient Amber bee (IMAGE)

Washington State University

Ancient Amber bee

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A piece of ancient amber containing a tiny, fossilized bee. Bossert and colleagues from around the globe compared features of bees from fossils, including extinct species, in one of the broadest genomic studies of bees to date.

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Bossert lab.

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