Cretaceous insectsAmber is wonderful for preserving fossils. Not quite as good as Michael Crichton suggested in “Jurassic Park”, but impressive nonetheless. This particular specimen, from northern Myanmar, is a scale insect that lived 100m years ago, during the Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs flourished. It is by far the earliest evidence of “brood care”: the creature is carrying about 60 eggs in a waxy sac on he
