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99 million-year-old beetle found trapped in amber
FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Oct 31, 2018 | Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

Posted on 11/02/2018 7:42:10 AM PDT by ETL

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The fossil beetle, Propiestus archaicus, preserved in amber
(Credit: Field Museum, Shuhei Yamamoto)
1 posted on 11/02/2018 7:42:10 AM PDT by ETL
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"Qué lindo eres"


2 posted on 11/02/2018 7:42:21 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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Paul McCartney doesn’t look much better.


3 posted on 11/02/2018 7:43:11 AM PDT by Tallguy
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99 million? LOL! How do they know this? Did they find it’s birth certificate too? I think they pull up these dates out of thin air because it satisfies them as “it sounds good”.


4 posted on 11/02/2018 7:44:43 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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“The antennae probably had a highly sensitive ability as a sensory organ,” Yamamoto said. “There wouldn’t have been a lot of space available in the beetle’s habitat, so it was important to be able to detect everything.”

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Except for tree resin that would trap it for 99 million years.


5 posted on 11/02/2018 7:46:42 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: ETL
Same actor from Seinfeld "Little Jerry/Chicken Fight" episode...


6 posted on 11/02/2018 7:48:09 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: ETL

Tell Amber to stop eating bugs.


7 posted on 11/02/2018 7:53:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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It’s a shame the Burmese don’t know they live in Burma.


8 posted on 11/02/2018 7:56:52 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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Favorite movie scene about a beetle bug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctin21yrfcA


9 posted on 11/02/2018 8:03:31 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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Radiometric dating or radioactive dating is a technique used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they were formed.

The method compares the abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope within the material to the abundance of its decay products, which form at a known constant rate of decay.[1]

The use of radiometric dating was first published in 1907 by Bertram Boltwood[2] and is now the principal source of information about the absolute age of rocks and other geological features, including the age of fossilized life forms or the age of the Earth itself, and can also be used to date a wide range of natural and man-made materials.

Together with stratigraphic principles, radiometric dating methods are used in geochronology to establish the geologic time scale.[3] Among the best-known techniques are radiocarbon dating, potassium–argon dating and uranium–lead dating.

By allowing the establishment of geological timescales, it provides a significant source of information about the ages of fossils and the deduced rates of evolutionary change. Radiometric dating is also used to date archaeological materials, including ancient artifacts.

Different methods of radiometric dating vary in the timescale over which they are accurate and the materials to which they can be applied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating


10 posted on 11/02/2018 8:06:27 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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11 posted on 11/02/2018 8:06:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Ringo, on the other hand, still looks great for his age.


12 posted on 11/02/2018 8:08:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ETL; newfreep; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
Myanmar was part of Gondwanaland

It was still Burma then.

13 posted on 11/02/2018 8:12:45 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Lol! Thanks.

Reminds me of an actor who played Einstein in a special 2-hour documentary, titled Einstein Revealed. Turned out he was the same guy who played the bumbling Spanish waiter, "Manuel", on Fawlty Towers!

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14 posted on 11/02/2018 8:17:23 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: WKUHilltopper

The more zeros in the date, the more zeros in the checks from the government grants.

As if a chunk of amber could resist 99,000,000 years of oxidation. Modern Science is as much of a religion as voodoo is.


15 posted on 11/02/2018 8:20:10 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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16 posted on 11/02/2018 8:22:39 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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17 posted on 11/02/2018 8:23:49 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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I can beat that ... I've got ...


18 posted on 11/02/2018 8:27:00 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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19 posted on 11/02/2018 8:28:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (No-platform us all you want. Ban us all you want. Smear us all you want. You canÂ’t stop an idea....)
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Paul must’ve kicked him out of the band even before kicking out Pete Best.


20 posted on 11/02/2018 8:31:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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