How Amber Becomes Death Trap For Watery Creatures

Science Daily ^ | 10-20-2007 | University of Florida.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Larry Lucido]

So do they need an “Amber Alert”?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Fred Nerks]

Dilcher and Alexander Schmidt, a researcher at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, replicated the prehistoric demise of the water bugs by taking a handsaw to a swamp on Dilcher’s property near Gainesville in north Central Florida. After they cut bark from some pine trees, the resin flowed into the water and they collected the goo and took it back to Dilcher’s lab on campus.

replicated...? So, I wanna know who used the handsaw that caused the prehistoric demise of the waterbugs...

[Freedom2specul8]

This is a cool article.... I love amber jewelry. ;-]

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

The discovery not only solved the mystery of how swimming bugs could have been entombed in sticky sap from high up in a tree but could lead to new information about prehistoric, maybe even Jurassic, swamps, Dilcher said. Studying organisms that were trapped for millions of years in amber may help scientists to recreate prehistoric water ecosystems and learn how these life forms changed over time, he said.

[SunkenCiv]

...and just how *big* are these waterbugs? Should we be scared?

[ken21]

ping a ling!

[VOA]

Sidebar about a missing (and now re-created) amber-based treasure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room

[NicknamedBob]

"replicated...? So, I wanna know who used the handsaw that caused the prehistoric demise of the waterbugs..."

Working on it. Picture a cartoon; Two Tyrannosaurs -- one has just bitten a chunk out of the bark of a pine tree.

"Rxx, what the heck are you doing? We're supposed to be meat eaters, remember?"

"Relax, Srs. It's my life insurance program. I'm causing the production of amber, which will entrap insects that have bitten us. Millions of years from now, idiotic monkey creatures will find a way to resurrect us, and we will thank them by eating them!"

"You've been reading that claptrap Science Fiction again, haven't you? Is that the same guy who keeps trying to scare us about an invader from outer space?"

"It won't do any harm. You can't be too careful, you know. Now, let's go eat the leg off something. My mouth is sticky."

[Fred Nerks]

I was just thinking about it...

[Fred Nerks]

WHO SAID

Now listen to what Bobasuarus is trying to tell you...one day, some silly monkey people are going to resurrect us and you will need to know how to get along in that new world. The first thing you must do is join Freerepublic and always donate to the quarterly Freepathons, got that? And never vote Democrat...

[NicknamedBob]

Must have lost something in the translation.

[packrat35]

I’ve always believed it went down with the Wilhelm Gustloff when it sank with 7000 deaths near the end of the war.

[Fred Nerks]

sokay...I’ve got a raging fever, need to take my meds.

[Fred Nerks]

yum yum...large water bugs stuffed with herbs and basted with soy sauce, then roasted to perfection over charcoal.

[NicknamedBob]

I’ll pass. I’m allergic to frass. (By personal choice.)

[VOA]

“I’ve always believed it went down with the Wilhelm Gustloff when
it sank with 7000 deaths near the end of the war.”

Prompted by your post, I dug a bit.

“HOLY CR-P!”, I’d never heard of this sinking before.
That’s a mind-blower!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KdF_Ship_Wilhelm_Gustloff

http://www.wilhelmgustloff.com/

[MarkL]

Oh... I thought that they were talking about this girl named "Amber" that I once dated...

Mark