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- This Photo Puzzle features a cropped image chosen by Science Photo Library. Estimated image size 356x254mm.
- 10x14 Photo Puzzle with 252 pieces. Packed in black cardboard box of dimensions 5 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 1 1/5. Puzzle image 5x7 affixed to box top. Puzzle pieces printed on RA4 paper at 300 dpi
- Image Description: Fossil insects in amber. Macrophotograph of fossilised insects (family Sciaridae) embedded in Baltic amber. The insects are about 40 million years old, from the Upper Eocene era. Belonging to the order Diptera, they are related to flies and mosquitoes, and more closely to present day dark- winged fungus gnats. Amber is a sticky resin extruded by wounded pines and other trees; it traps small insects as it solidifies and hardens. This is one
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- Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library
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Photo Puzzle, Fossilised insects (sciaridae) in Baltic amber. Fossil insects in amber. Macrophotograph of fossilised insects (family Sciaridae) embedded in Baltic amber. The insects are about 40 million years old, from the Upper Eocene era. Belonging to the order Diptera, they are related to flies and mosquitoes, and more closely to present day dark- winged fungus gnats. Amber is a sticky resin extruded by wounded pines and other trees;
