[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...

[SunkenCiv]

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

[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."