Holocene Copal and Resin Preserves Subfossil Specimens of Extinct Species

[Oxytropidoceras]

Many Newly Discovered Species Are Already Gone

Scientists are uncovering previously unknown species

preserved in museum and botanical garden collections,

only to find that they no longer exist in the wild.

Katarina Zimmer, Wired, June 10, 2023

 

Undark version of above article.

 

The paywalled paper is:

 

Solórzano-Kraemer, M.M., Kunz, R., Hammel, J.U.,

Peñalver, E., Delclòs, X. and Engel, M.S., 2022. Stingless

bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Holocene copal and

Defaunation resin from Eastern Africa indicate Recent

biodiversity change. The Holocene, 32(5), pp.414-432.

 

PDF of preprint of Solórzano-Kraemer et al. (2022)

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

 

Edited June 13, 2023 by Oxytropidoceras
Corrected URL and typo