A 52-million-year-old ant is just one of a rich collection of fossils found in newly discovered amber deposits from western India. The fossil trove includes bees, ants, gnats, flies, termites and other insects typical of the Eocene period, paleontologists report October 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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