The brain power of people who post at FR

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Prehistoric tiny bugs found trapped in amber
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found three well preserved ancient insects frozen in amber — and time — in what is Earth's oldest bug trap.

The discoveries of amber-encased insects in Italy may sound like something out of "Jurassic Park" but these bugs are even older than that. They are about 230 million years old, which puts them in the Triassic time period, and about 100 million years older than what had been the previously known oldest critters trapped in fossilized tree resin, or amber.

Gooey tree resin is like sap but without water and can't be diluted.

Researchers painstakingly examined 70,000 droplets of amber found in northeastern Italy. Stuck in them were two microscopic mites and much of one fly. The mites are too small to be seen with the naked eye and the fly is a tad tinier than a fruit fly, researchers say.



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Well there goes two bugs that will never make it to the water to sprout gills and swim away.

8 posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:51:01 AM by soycd
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I have several pieces of polished Baltic amber that contain a mosquito and an ant. Their preservation is perfect. Looking at them through a stereo (3D) microscope, I can see no obvious differences from modern specimens. They cause me to wonder how old that amber really is.

10 posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:18:43 AM by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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“they’re dead ringers for (modern) gall mites,”

What? You mean they haven’t “evolved” into something else?

Millions of generations and the mites are still mites.

11 posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:37:49 AM by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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Is this really news? Seems a huge percentage of amber sold has a bug in it.

12 posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:40:25 AM by stocksthatgoup (Common sense although common knowledge is seldom common practice.)
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[Fawke Em]

1. Apparently, none of them watched "Jurassic Park," either.

Actually, despite some creative liberties, the "science" in that movie was more accurate than what that brain trust over a FR has posted.

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2. Can people really be that stupid?

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3. it makes you wonder if they think it's cute to act stupid like that

or they are really just fucking idiots

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4. I'm thinking "fucking idiots".