Cretaceous centipede in amber. Very large and irregular-sized inclusion–specimen reaches nearly 30mm in length!
Our team has nickname this: The headless predator!
This ancient chilopoda contains a prominent ‘tail’, is simply the rear portion of its elongated trunk, however conspicuous it may be. The final (posteriorâmost) trunk segment supports an oftenâdistinctive last pair of legs, sometimes elongated or specialized for defense or sensory functions
This is 100 million year old natural genuine Kachin amber from northern Myanmar. Natural and genuine guaranteed, from the Kachin Amber Research Institute collection.
A Cretaceous Burmese/Kachin amber inclusion of a centipede measuring nearly 30 mm is exceptionally rare. Most centipede inclusions in Burmese amber are small-bodied. Rarely does our institute release such specimens for public consumption and collection. Larger centipede species, such as Scolopendromorpha (tropical predatory centipedes), are much rarer finds in amber due to their behavior and size.
