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Why these 99-million-year-old bugs still shine like diamonds

by JoAnna Wendel

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When dinosaurs ruled Earth, these insects got trapped in tree resin and died...

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Some 99 million years later, paleontologists in Myanmar unearthed those fossilized bits of resin — known as amber — and found something amazing...

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