Insect in amber
If the bark of a tree is injured, it emits resin to close the injury.
This happens today as it did in the past. So it could happen, that fresh
resin, by dropping down a tree, absorbs some insects. One of these might
by mosquito like. If this mosquito, just before inclusion into the resin,
sucked blood from a dinosaur, there might be intact dinosaur DNA inside
the insect.
Through the ages, resin turns into amber. We acually find amber with
such inclusions.
A piece of amber with an insect included.
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