Researchers have recently identified a fossilised arthropod entombed in 100-million-year-old Burmese amber as a new genus and species of froghopper. The Oregon State University researchers categorised the fossilised froghopper as Araeoanasillus leptosomus, this discovery adding to our current knowledge on the diversity of organisms known to be around in the mid-Cretaceous period. First author on the paper, George Poinar Jr., is a renowned international expert specialising in the study of plant a