Animals fighting in amber
Updated: Sep 14
Animals fight, and sometimes, they fall into amber during those fights. This collection highlights the best animals fighting in amber that we have found.
3) Spider attacking ant.
Origin: Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar
Age: ~98–100 million years
Geologic Period: Mid-Cretaceous
This piece clearly shows a spider winning a battle against an ant. He's got his back!
2) Ant war.
Origin: Dominican Republic
Age: ~15–20 million years
Geologic Period: Miocene
This is a ball of ants, many female warrior ants, and a lot of evidence of decapitation. There certainly was a fight going on here.
1) Beetle fighting assassin bug in amber.
Provenance: Burmese Amber (Myanmar)
Origin: Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar
Age: ~98–100 million years
Geologic Period: Mid-Cretaceous
The assasin bug has a long probiscus designed to impale it's prey. In this case, the beetle. They must have tumbled down together fighting and fallen into fresh pitch which later fossilized into amber.
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