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Tiny beetle trapped in amber might show how landmasses shifted

In 2016, Shuhei Yamamoto obtained a penny-sized piece of Burmese Amber from Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar, near China's southern border. He had a hunch that the three-millimeter insect trapped inside the amber could help ansshow why our world today looks the way it does. The fossil beetle in amber, with a pen tip for scale [Credit: (c) Field Museum]After carefully cutting and polishing the amber, Yamamoto determined that the...

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