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. The following is a photo I took of an action shot that has (literally) existed for 55 million years. The photo is of a piece of Baltic Amber that contains a fly as it is being attacked by a spider. The resins from certain trees would trap insects on occasion… just as they do in the plum trees in our back yard. When buried by soil and eventually rock substrate, and due to pressure over millions of years, the resin transforms into jewel-like amber, permanently encasing/preserving the (now extinct) species of insects that unfortunately had fallen into the resin.
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The Spider & the Fly in Baltic Amber… by Thomas Peace 2013
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Pretty amazing pictures when you consider that it is an “action shot” from 55 million years ago. Awesome!
Thank you Stephanie! The chances of discovering another amber piece like this are slim to none.
How little really changes in the world…
well, except for the dinosaurs…. and technology… and the means of capturing the moment…
Darn! EVERYTHING has changed… 😉
It all changes, Running Elk… yet remains the same. 😉