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Researchers observed mites fossilized inside a piece of Burmese amber, dating to approximately 100 million years ago, formed in a long, orderly queue.
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Burmese amber
Who
Diying Huang and Qiang Xuan (Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology)
What
Researchers observed mites fossilized inside a piece of Burmese amber, dating to approximately 100 million years ago, formed in a long, orderly queue.
When
Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:00:01 GMT · 3h 39m ago
Where
Burmese amber ·
Why
The mites exhibited queuing migration, a collective behavior in which animals travel as a group in an organized line, and used silk threads for cohesion.
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This discovery represents the earliest known evidence of queuing behavior in terrestrial arthropods and the first fossil evidence of silk utilization in mites, offering new insights into the evolution of complex behaviors in primitive terrestrial animals.
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