These species were discovered in museum collections. They might already be extinct.
The bee species Hypotrigona kleineri, discovered in resin samples from eastern Africa first collected more than a century ago, is now believed to be extinct. Visual: Seckenberg Natural History Museum This article was originally published on Undark. It could have been a scene from Jurassic Park: ten golden lumps of hardened resin, each encasing insects. But these weren’t from the age of the dinosaurs; these younger resins were formed in eastern Africa within the last few hundreds or thousands of years. Still, they offered a glimpse into a lost past: the dry evergreen forests of coastal Tanzania. An international team of scientists recently took a close look at the lumps, which had been first collected more than a century ago by resin traders and then housed at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural...