Not just mites but mites walking in a line – see https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ancient-amber-fossil-captures-mites.html … mites have a behavioural characteristic that has been captured in amber from the Late Cretaceous period. Mites walking in a line to maintain social cohesion.
It was a piece of Burmese amber, approximately dated on geochronology at 100 million years ago. Burma is very often called Myanmar nowadays but this is Chinese research and the old name is used. The amber ended up at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology where the Chinese Academy of Science did the research. The findings were published in the journal, Royal Society B [biological sciences]. The tiny mites had organised themselves into an orderly queue and were captured at the moment of impact, in the amber [tree resin].
See also https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0271 … for the full article.
At https://phys.org/news/2026-06-volcanic-shifts-andes-mountain-growth.html … scientists suggest the southern Andes did not rise slowly, or even steadily in a gradualist manner. The mountains were built up in a series of short powerful pulses of growth, separated by a few million years of non-growth, on each occasion. See also https://doi.org/s41467-026-71431-x …
On a similar geological theme, at https://phys.org/news/2026-06-powerful-seismic-japan-earthquake-struck.html … powerful seismic waves accompanied the 2011 Japanese earthquake at a slip fault. It is now argued the wave travelled inside the Earth to the inner core and then bounced back up again. The whole of Japan is said to have moved eastwards by 6 mm. Not a great deal, but enough to show up on instruments, it is claimed.