Germs Found Trapped in Amber Lived With First Dinosaurs

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"Although there were big changes in the composition of forests from the Triassic to recent [times] … their microhabitats probably changed little, even during extinction events," Schmidt explained.

Many ancient organisms have been found in amber, but samples older than about 135 million years are quite rare.

The amber was found near Cortina d'Ampezzo, a village in the Dolomites mountain range in northern Italy.

During the Triassic, the region was covered by humid forests on the coast of an ancient sea.

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