Fossilized Insect Discovered in Opal Instead of Amber

Jan 18, 2019 7:46 PM

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Fossilized Insect Discovered in Opal Instead of Amber

Sauce: https://entomologytoday.org/2019/01/18/fossilized-insect-discovered-amber-opal/

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Looks like the Star Trek TOS Doomsday Machine.

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Awesome! We’re finally getting real dinosaurs!!!!

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You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it.

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Drill into it, clone the DNA, make a room full of insects. Let's do it

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It's still screaming.

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Easy there John Hammond, we know how this ends.

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Do you want dinosaurs, because that’s how you get dinosaurs.

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I mean, yeah I do.

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That’s how you get dinosaurs

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Is it going to be ok? :(

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That is too wild. Thank-You so much for posting it here :-)

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Not opal.

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Ded (at least)

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NANA NA NA NA, NANA NA NA NA!!!

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Oooh, look at mister fancy-thorax here. Amber's not GOOD enough for your segmented ass, huh?

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Insecdashiun

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mister fancy-thorax. +2

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Say what you want, he still looks FABULOUS.

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Hey @guitarpaddy ...

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But how?

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Put it back

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Fuck that, looks like a spider with pincers. No thanks.

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Isn’t it amber in the middle though?

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That's just the color of its energy

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Whoa!

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Yeah, the shades of gold display naturally.

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Theory is that the amber opalized

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Now I need to know how things opalize and what can do it...(to lazy to google it now so I might do that later when everyone is sleeping)

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What happens in opalization? Sry..love opal, never researched how it can to be

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That's cool

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Question. Is it still considered fossilized if it's preserved within a rock? I thought fossilization was the remineralizing of bone

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It’s just preserved remains from a past geological age

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I first read that as “fossilized incest” and was very very confused

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its like a baby boomer version of game of thrones

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Pretty sure that's just another name for shagging your grandmother

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?????

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It’s a dinosaur, a fucking dinosaur.

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Ugh, "Event Horizon" ruined Sam Neill for me, now I can't see his face without picturing it covered in blood.

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Hold on to your butts.

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