Spanish #Amber Deposit Offers Rare Window into #Cretaceous Life https://www.sci.news/paleontology/el-soplao-amber-15065.html "Among the discoveries are the oldest #tick known to science, a #lacewing larva that camouflaged itself with plant debris, and a fly preserved mid-meal with #pollen from an extinct gymnosperm group clumped on its body — direct evidence of #pollination before flowering #plants took over that ecological role. Theropod #dinosaur feathers have also turned up"