Jewelry With Bugs

If I recall correctly, the whole story of Jurassic Park was based on DNA extracted from bugs found in amber that were trapped their at the same time dinosaurs roamed the earth. Scientists are now finding new previously unknown creatures in ancient amber deposits:

Hundreds of fossilized creatures from the Age of Dinosaurs have been discovered inside a type of amber into which scientists have now glimpsed for the first time.

The trove of ancient animals was found in pieces of opaque amber, the secretive sister of the more familiar translucent amber gemstone.

Though made from the same tree sap as translucent amber, opaque amber is impenetrable to the human eye and all of the microscopes scientists have previously trained on it.

But when European researchers imaged samples of 100-million-year-old opaque amber with high-energy synchrotron X-rays, they found a world teeming with past life.

My daughter has quite a collection of translucent amber jewelry given her by her grandfather. One necklace in particular attracts some extra attention because each of the beads has a tiny bug in it. I don't think any of them are prehistoric in nature, but it's interesting to look at nonetheless.