Amber Insects Fossil Still Glow

 

 

Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Joel Kontinen

The insects can be dated back to the Cretaceous period, which occurred 99 million years ago. The animals were all preserved in pieces of amber from a mine in northern Myanmar. The insects—a beetle, a fly, and a wasp—are so well-preserved in the amber that their true color could be identified.

“The way that the colour is preserved in these things is really remarkable,” says James Lamsdell, a University of West Virginia paleobiologist who was not involved in the research.

It may sound odd, but all the insects preserved in amber in Myanmar are by evolutionist deemed to be  99 millions years old. This is because the daters only got to measure a piece that was thought to be 99 million years old.

"In terms of colour, they are almost the same as cuckoo wasps that live today," said Dr, Cai Chenyang, who led the study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Now, if the insects were as old as they suppose, then it means no evolution for 99 million years. How dinosaurs turned into birds in a short span of time? is a question they have to address. The Genesis worldview with its global flood can answer the question.

Source:

Eschner Kat 2020. These insects preserved in amber are still glowing 99 million years later   Popular Science 2 July.