Part of a feather preserved in amber from the Santa Maria coal mine Sergio Alvarez-Parra
An impressive trove of fossil-filled amber has come to light at a 110-million-year-old site that has already yielded聽dinosaur bones in Ari帽o, north-eastern Spain. The amber contains an unusually diverse range of insect, plant and vertebrate fossils and provides a rare insight into the life that inhabited what would have been a coastal freshwater swamp during the Cretaceous period.
鈥淗aving two different yet complementary windows of preservation from a given fossil [site] 鈥 the bonebed and the amber at Ari帽o 鈥 is exceptional,鈥 says
