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A praying mantis preserved in amber for millions of years not a sculpture, but a real prehistoric insect trapped in tree resin and fossilized into a natural time capsule.

An entire moment from ancient Earth… frozen before humans even existed.

Check out : https://www.natureknows.org/2024/02/30-million-year-old-praying-mantis-is.html

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Did trees 30 million years ago produce more sap? Or is that smaller than it looks? Because that's an amazingly big and clear hunk of amber if that mantis is the size of the ones I normally see.