Image: Oregon State University En... ...extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber and inspired Michael Crichton's book an... ...nd world expert on insects trapped in amber . He outlined the findings in a new pu...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/09/100-Million-Year-Old-Spider-Attack-Frozen-in-Time/
The images to your left, dear Neatoraman... ...arachnids, and crustaceans) preserved in amber : Even though arthropods are more... ..., the oldest record of the animals in amber dates to about 130 million years. The... ...ars. They are the first arthropods to...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/28/Worlds-Oldest-Arthropods/
Hipsters may consider dogboarding to be way co... ...spider embedded in a 44 million year old piece of amber . "And there, latched onto its underside just as...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/03/spider-boarding/
You may well be thinking 'The mystery of what?' but resin (the type from trees) is still something of a mystery. The jury is still out about why exactly plants secrete (or excrete, depending on what side of the argument...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/09/the-mystery-of-resin/
