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Insect head in burmese amber Hello all, I found an interesting piece of amber from Myanmar with a large insect head in it, the head is about 5 mm in size. It shows three teeth like serrations, I suspect it to be a wasp. Its a bit degraded but still interesting to me. Anyone have some ideas what it could be?
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Got a cool one for you guys: a decent sized scorpion in amber from Burma. Probably about 100 million years old. The most interesting part to me is the tail sort of curves down 90 degrees perpendicular to the body (you can see it in the last pic side view) and that kind of 3D preservation is rare in amber. Usually everything flattens out on a plane so this is neat. I'm excited! The scorpion is about 1.5cm, and 2cm if you include the pincers. Whole piece is 4cm long heightwise.
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The attached images are a microscopic images of a beetle in Burmese amber. As you can see its front legs look differently and rather strange. Also one of the images shows something that looks like an egg on its left leg and a small white something next to it. This small white thing might be a larvae. There is a fossil record of scale infect with eggs attached to their feet, but I was not able to find anything similar in regards to beetles. What do you think?
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Hey all, here's the latest 99-myo addition to my amber collection. Not sure I've seen too many other scorpions as large or well-posed as this beefy fellow; he's a little over an inch long not including the pincers/arms. It's a thin piece so the often foggy clarity of Burmese amber is luckily avoided here with little oxidation.
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I was working on sorting through large group of amber I recently acquired, and this one struck me as interesting. I think I have seen this insect before, but having a hard time placing it. Raptorial legs, and an interesting snout/mouth piece. Any ideas?
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From the album: Burmese Amber
Half yellow/red amber, half root amber. -
From the album: Burmese Amber
Half yellow/red amber, half root amber. -
From the album: Burmese Amber
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From the album: Burmese Amber
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From the album: Burmese Amber
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From the album: Burmese Amber
Parts of a small lizard tail and leg. Mostly hollow, but the distal ends of the tail and foot are preserved. My hypothesis is that the lizard body was partly captured in a resin flow. The majority of the body was then picked out by scavengers, leaving behind a resin cast of the body that was filled in by another resin flow. Scavengers were unable to extract the distal elements. -
From the album: Burmese Amber
Parts of a small lizard tail and leg. Bought directly from a Myanmar seller. -
From the album: Burmese Amber
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From the album: Burmese Amber
Contains what appear to be two spiders. Received from Israeli seller as a gift. -
From the album: Burmese Amber
Contains what appear to be two spiders. Received from Israeli seller as a gift. -
From the album: Burmese Amber
Measures 3mm. Amber piece measures 9mm. -
From the album: Burmese Amber
Measures 3mm. Amber piece measures 9mm. -
From the album: Burmese Amber
Top specimen contains a small lizard foot. Bottom specimen contains what appear to be two spiders. Bought from Israeli seller. -
Burmese amber compound leaf
Earendil posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello everyone, saw this Burmese Amber leaf for sale and it looked a bit too good to be true. I usually buy Baltic so I'm not familiar with who's reputable and not in the Burmese world. Dimensions are 31/14/6.9 mm and it weighs 1.87g. Is the whitish strip running down the side all natural or is it glue? Do you guys think it looks legit? Thanks!