Seeing a perfectly preserved insect that flew around some long-gone forest tens of millions years ago right in front of your eyes, right now in 2025, is an interesting experience. Most fossils, somewhere between bone and rock, are too different from the original animal or the plant to fully engage the imagination. Not so for amber inclusions. Insects, spiders, plants and even vertebrates like a 54 million year old gecko whose species has since gone extinct have all been enclosed in amber. Often they are incredibly well preserved, seeming as if they’ve just died, frozen in time. Wikimedia Commons has a good gallery.
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