Dung Mites Talk About Inca Empire

The glory and the decadence of the mighty civilizations could now be tracked by ... dung! A French-British-American team has found a method to assess the rise and fall the ancient Inca empire by investigating tiny mite preserved in the mud at the bottom of a sacred Peruvian lake. Counting the... [ read more >> ]

A microscope image of a fossilised oribatid mite

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A microscope image of a fossilised oribatid mite