[Rockhounds] Holocene Copal and Resin Preserves Specimens of Extinct Species

[Paul]

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
https://www.wired.com/story/many-newly-discovered-species-are-already-gone/

Undark version of above article.
https://undark.org/2023/05/29/discovered-in-collections-many-new-species-are-already-gone/

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.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09596836221074035

PDF of preprint of Solórzano-Kraemer et al. (2022)
https://www.hereon.de/imperia/md/content/hzg/zentrale_einrichtungen/bibliothek/journals/2022/solorzanokraemer_50369.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.