Bee One
October 28, 2006
Well, maybe.
Melittosphex burmensis, which has been trapped in amber for the past hundred million years, is the oldest bee fossil ever discovered. It lived in northern Myanmar (Burma) in Southeast Asia about 35 million to 45 million years earlier than the next oldest specimens known to science.
Wow…
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October 28th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
They’ve also deciphered (or maybe that should be ‘transcribed’) the genome of the European honeybee. It appears they have a lot of genes for tasting, but not so many for smelling as would be expected.