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Amber: Illuminating Gems on Display at Museum of the Earth
Four million years ago in a prehistoric forest in present-day Madagascar, a cricket resting on a tree branch suddenly became entrapped in sticky goo. Four million years later, at Ithaca’s Museum of the Earth, that cricket still sits as he did then — perfectly preserved in time, frozen still in that same sticky goo, which has now hardened into a glittering butterscotch jewel.

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