Cretaceous Forests – The Ecology Beneath Tree Bark
- 演化之聲
- Mar 14
- 4 min read
Understanding the interactions among species within an ecosystem is essential for reconstructing how ecological systems function and evolve. Fossils, however, rarely preserve such information. Most fossil records capture the morphology of individual organisms rather than the relationships those organisms maintained with other species in the same environment.
In this study, researchers uncovered a miniature ecosystem that once existed beneath tree bark. The entire system was preserved inside amber from the Kachin deposits of northern Myanmar, dating to the Late Cretaceous.
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