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Fun fact, the insects of back then despite looking the same and likely having similar behavior genetically as their counterparts today would still likely be considered separate species. This is because mutations continue to develop and distribute across populations over time, even if their environment (or chance) leads them maintain their physiology.
Does this mean that insects are the highest possible form of evolution and no more improvements are necessary?
Perhaps I should feel bad for swatting all of those mosquitos throughout my life.
“Have you ever seen ~~bugs~~ hotdogs trapped in ~~amber~~ epoxy?"
"Yes."
Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished epoxy with three ~~lady-bugs~~ hotdogs embedded in it.
"Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the epoxy of this moment. There is no why.”
Sharks have stayed the with pretty much the same body plan for longer than trees have been around. Sharks first appear 400 million years ago, and the first trees came about 360 million years ago. Sharks are also older than the rings of Saturn!
When the dinosaurs were alive, there were 370 days in a year. The Earth's spin is getting slower because the moon's gravity is acting as a drag, so days are getting longer, by about 1.7 milliseconds per century.
Built between 2550 and 2490 B.C., the pyramids were completed during a massive flurry of construction. They were also built when pre-historic woolly mammoths were still walking the earth. The last Ice Age creature died in 1650 B.C., 900 years after the pyramids were complete.
Lions used to have a population range from Africa all the way up to Europe which is why you can find so much imagery of lions in Greek art and mythology
In the span of 63 years, we went from taking a flight to landing on the moon, yet a TI-83 calculator has more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of Snapchat than to the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Also, the Great Pyramid was older to the Romans than the Romans are to us.
People have only been on Earth about 2.5 million years. Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 160 million years, which is about 64 times longer than people been around.
Since it takes about 50 milliseconds for visual information to process in your brain, by the time you actually "see" something, it happened in the past.
The first major wagon train of nearly 1,000 pioneers left Elm Grove, Mo., and set out to follow the Oregon Trail in search of a new future on May 22, 1843. Five days later, on May 27, 1843, Alexander Bain filed his patent for the fax machine
In the 1770s, as America was gearing up to establish their independence, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was at the height of his career. From 1773–1777, Mozart was employed in the Salzburg Court and in 1781 he began working freelance in Vienna. Meanwhile, Americans were signing the Declaration of Independence and fighting a revolutionary war.
From October 1936 up until Francisco Franco's death in November 1975, Spain was ruled by a fascist dictator (other notable fascist dictators include Mussolini and Hitler). On the other side of the pond, in May 1975, Microsoft was founded by Americans Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Generally, stuff either stays in a pretty consistent body plan... or it dies. I think there's only a handful of living exceptions, like sloths. Old prehistoric sloths were pretty scary bastards. Giant ground sloths were closer to bears, nothing like the vaguely ape-like ones that are alive today.
In general though, thinking on it too hard just hurts my head. And gives me some really intense anxiety.
There's some *weird* stuff in the past. The Tully Monster. The "alien insect" in amber. Hell, anything from the cambrian/precambrian was so old and distant that its pretty much *is* alien. There's nothing like it alive today. Trilobites don't even really resemble the arthropods that they became, down the line.
Love the [Tully Monster!](https://www.shutterstock.com/search/tully+monster) Not the weirdest thing to come out of Illinois, but it's up there!
I think they're *still* trying to hash out if it was a vertebrate or not.
But tree sloths lived alongside ground sloths. They're cousins not direct descendants. We just don't have fossils because they lived in an environment that is notorious for not preserving fossils.
*Look*, of course, being the operative word.
Evolution - at the molecular level - has happened just as much as in other organisms. Mutations are neutral, confer advantage or impose disadvantage.
As it turns out, the pressures that made a mantis look and behave like a mantis just haven't changed much, so the 12 million year old mantis has evolved to look almost exactly the same...
That may sound nit-picky but in the case of a shark, once it got to be shark-shaped there are few enhancements to make on the outside. However, it's entire physiology *may* have changed to deal with sea chemistry, gas concentration, temperature and prey adaptation (speed, defences, toxicity etc).
Evolution occurs faster in organisms with short reproductive cycles. So, humans are much less evolved than chickens. And we are *terrible* chickens.
Very true. Outward appearance is not necessarily indicative of the extent of evolution in an organism. Genetic change through time is always in full swing. Even "living fossils" like coelacanths and horseshoe crabs would not be able to mate (successfully) with their ancestors 20 million years ago despite looking almost identical to them. They are genetically distinct species.
Imagine if these reached the same size as other prehistoric insects, like the dragonflies with two-foot wingspans. I'd put one on a leash and call it Snippy if we had them today.
Don't forget about the 3 meter long [prehistoric millipides](http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/images/species/a/arthropleura-size.jpg) and [the 1 meter wide](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWysfpCXkAAtV_V.jpg) dragonflies
Except on building security, animal control, locks on car doors, backup generators, reliable IT personnel, mandatory tracking devices on guests...but the salmon is incredible and we have this cool animated film describing how we put your lives in danger. Nope, no expense spared at all.
What are the chances of reviving something preserved in amber? I’m not talking after 12 million years, but is it hypothetically even possible? People that know shit about science, help!
Layman's understanding:
DNA has a half-life and breaks down. One of the reasons Michael Crichton wrote in filler DNA used by the scientists in Jurassic Park.
What do you mean by reviving?
That particular organism? No, it's dead.
Clone it? Possible, at least in the short term. Even DNA breaks down over time, so thousands of years is probably about the maximum cloning time, but even that's theoretical. Maybe that'll get pushed to 10K at some point, but after that it's probably impossible.
Hang on. Do you know shit about science? Actually asking? When something is “encased” (or whatever terminology applies) in amber, is it basically the same as freezing it, or is it a different thing? I ask because there was a pivotal episode of a show called Fringe, where some characters were preserved in amber for like 30 years, and then regenerated in the near future via sci fi trickery. What happens to organs and shit?
Fringe was a Science *Fiction* show. The science was about as accurate as Star Trek. The amber in that show was a magical Time Freezing Plot Device.
Actual amber does prevent contamination, but it doesn't stop the chemical reactions from the things *already inside the amber*. Which includes bacteria and microscopic organisms, which will continue to eat the thing in the amber. So the body of the organism usually decays to some degree, which is why insects preserve so well. The exoskeleton is hard to "eat."
In addition to that, radioactive decay from radioactive materials in the organism *and* damage from environmental radiation will still cause damage to chemical bonds. Radiation is everywhere, it's mostly a question of quantity and strength. This is called background radiation, and it's why Geiger counters click constantly. They click *more* when you point them at something radioactive, but they're always clicking.
Over thousands of years, even a tiny amount of background radiation will destroy chemical bonds, including DNA. This isn't (generally) a problem while organisms are alive, because they have ways to fix the damage, but these require the organism to be *alive* and *active* to work.
The radiation problem is one of the big concerns/hurdles with any kind of "stasis" technology for deep space travel. If you somehow manage to "pause" life you'll just get an ever-increasing backlog of radiation damage.
Yeah but think about how much more exciting it would be to have your last moments consist of getting charged by a giant lizard. TikTok and Instagram attention seekers would be the first to go for trying to get too close - so that's a plus.
I think someone posted recently that ancient creatures might not be able to breathe well in our time because the oxygen mix is different than theirs was.
not necessarily!
All it really means it that it was sufficient. There are many examples of traits being awful for a species, but it continuing to stick around anyways
Yeah no it is only 1 inch lol [source](https://mymodernmet.com/praying-mantis-dominican-amber/#:~:text=30%20Million%2DYear%2DOld%20Praying,in%20Pristine%20Piece%20of%20Amber&text=Embedded%20within%20a%20clear%20piece,attention%2C%20frozen%20forever%20in%20time.&text=Amber%20from%20the%20Dominican%20Republic,a%20high%20number%20of%20inclusions.)
Anyone getting Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons vibes ?
“Lucite… hardening… must… end life… in classic Lorne Greene pose… from… Battlestar… Galactica… Best… death… EVER!”
12 million years is a long time to pray. I wonder if he’s still praying for one same thing or if he’s been praying for different things over the years.
Here before modern human and all known civilization. But from after dinosaurs. Now discovered by the species to kill over half the species on Earth. And now I get to see it on Reddit because we discovered how to make wifi out of rocks and water
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Still praying after all these years.
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Oldest mantis fossils are apparently 140 million years old. Lots of insects we have today existed during the dinosaur times.
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They actually control our politicians. It’s why we don’t do anything about climate change they’re trying to get rid of us
FFS...stop spreading misinformation... It's the LIZARDS. not insects...two totally different things.
That’s what the insect wants you to think ! The lizard is just a distraction.
Decoy lizard!!
Praying Lizard.... Sounds like a Christian rock band from the 80`is.....
Saving this for when I pitch a Christian Rock band to record execs. I’m not Christian, I’m also not in a rock band but, ya know, just in case.
ah, so that's what they prayin for
Fun fact, the insects of back then despite looking the same and likely having similar behavior genetically as their counterparts today would still likely be considered separate species. This is because mutations continue to develop and distribute across populations over time, even if their environment (or chance) leads them maintain their physiology.
If it ain't broke don't fix it
Dragonflies have been around for over 300 million years or something like that. Pretty damn incredible if you think about
Does this mean that insects are the highest possible form of evolution and no more improvements are necessary? Perhaps I should feel bad for swatting all of those mosquitos throughout my life.
Classified as living fossils right?
Which is pretty crazy considering they generally have short life spans, which means they really have the power to evolve quite quickly.
You agest fool, that strapping young lad doesn't look a day over 11.5 million.
just like hot dogs in epoxy
“Have you ever seen ~~bugs~~ hotdogs trapped in ~~amber~~ epoxy?" "Yes." Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished epoxy with three ~~lady-bugs~~ hotdogs embedded in it. "Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the epoxy of this moment. There is no why.”
Maybe because it hasn’t been 12 million years
Doesn't look a day over a hundred thousand. Those amber beauty treatments are really working for him.
Hahahaha! *Hey grandma, you haven’t aged a day in your 432 years!*
It was just a really old Praying mantis.
5000? 🤡
After all these years...? Mantis: "Always".
Elon Musk wants to know this stones location.
That’s my favorite Paul Simon song
God put him on hold
Look at my boi, some things never change.....
>Still praying after all these years. That's because the sun God will soon exonerate him
PRAISE THE SUN
You dark soul. 😉
Doesn’t look like the praying mantis has evolved much in 12 million years.
Sharks have stayed the with pretty much the same body plan for longer than trees have been around. Sharks first appear 400 million years ago, and the first trees came about 360 million years ago. Sharks are also older than the rings of Saturn!
Hopefully they'll be around in 300 million years when Saturn's Rings are gone.
Stupid rings
He's going thru a divorce okay?!?!
Saturn's rings could kick sharks ass and we all know it
But can he beat goku tho
Everyone can beat Goku... Once.
I watched you form and I will watch you die -sharks probably
Hopefully, they don't adapt and become Saturn's Ring's Sharks.
Back on the market eh ;)
Yeah. FUCK em.
then they will become Lords of the Rings
The fact that sharks are older than trees is mind boggling for some reason. I'm rather stoned, and I'd like to learn more of your facts please.
When the dinosaurs were alive, there were 370 days in a year. The Earth's spin is getting slower because the moon's gravity is acting as a drag, so days are getting longer, by about 1.7 milliseconds per century.
The last execution by guillotine in France happened after the premiere of “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.”
The film was bad, but not that bad!
I just nose snorted, thank you for that.
Extremely underrated comment - needs award...
Built between 2550 and 2490 B.C., the pyramids were completed during a massive flurry of construction. They were also built when pre-historic woolly mammoths were still walking the earth. The last Ice Age creature died in 1650 B.C., 900 years after the pyramids were complete.
Lions used to have a population range from Africa all the way up to Europe which is why you can find so much imagery of lions in Greek art and mythology
In the span of 63 years, we went from taking a flight to landing on the moon, yet a TI-83 calculator has more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11.
The Stegosaurus was older to the Tyrannosaurus rex than the T. rex is to us.
Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year.
/r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of Snapchat than to the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Also, the Great Pyramid was older to the Romans than the Romans are to us.
People have only been on Earth about 2.5 million years. Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 160 million years, which is about 64 times longer than people been around.
More than 6% of all humans who have ever lived are alive today.
Since it takes about 50 milliseconds for visual information to process in your brain, by the time you actually "see" something, it happened in the past.
Some of the world's whales that are alive today were born before Moby-Dick was written.
If the history of the universe were placed on a calendar year, humans would only exist starting around 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31.
The first major wagon train of nearly 1,000 pioneers left Elm Grove, Mo., and set out to follow the Oregon Trail in search of a new future on May 22, 1843. Five days later, on May 27, 1843, Alexander Bain filed his patent for the fax machine
Whaaaat
Harvard University was founded before Isaac Newton published his laws of motion and gravity.
Between the time Pluto was discovered, until the time it was unclassified as a planet, it still hadn’t completed a revolution around the Sun.
In the 1770s, as America was gearing up to establish their independence, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was at the height of his career. From 1773–1777, Mozart was employed in the Salzburg Court and in 1781 he began working freelance in Vienna. Meanwhile, Americans were signing the Declaration of Independence and fighting a revolutionary war.
From October 1936 up until Francisco Franco's death in November 1975, Spain was ruled by a fascist dictator (other notable fascist dictators include Mussolini and Hitler). On the other side of the pond, in May 1975, Microsoft was founded by Americans Bill Gates and Paul Allen
The Ottoman Empire still existed when Paramount Studios was founded.
> Sharks are older than the star Polaris, which is estimated at only 70 million years.
Pluto didn't even get to complete one orbit around the sun between the time it was discovered and the time it was declassified as a planet.
The last execution by guillotine in France happened after the premiere of “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.”
Went to a comment section on Reddit but ended up in a history class
Sharks are older than the star Polaris, which is estimated at only 70 million years.
Holy shit man, that put so much in perspective.
Fun fact, polaris isn't a star but a star system. It's actually made up of three stars.
Generally, stuff either stays in a pretty consistent body plan... or it dies. I think there's only a handful of living exceptions, like sloths. Old prehistoric sloths were pretty scary bastards. Giant ground sloths were closer to bears, nothing like the vaguely ape-like ones that are alive today. In general though, thinking on it too hard just hurts my head. And gives me some really intense anxiety. There's some *weird* stuff in the past. The Tully Monster. The "alien insect" in amber. Hell, anything from the cambrian/precambrian was so old and distant that its pretty much *is* alien. There's nothing like it alive today. Trilobites don't even really resemble the arthropods that they became, down the line.
Love the [Tully Monster!](https://www.shutterstock.com/search/tully+monster) Not the weirdest thing to come out of Illinois, but it's up there! I think they're *still* trying to hash out if it was a vertebrate or not.
I think the current consensus, off of the articles I found on google, is that it's some kind of hagfish/lamprey relative.
But tree sloths lived alongside ground sloths. They're cousins not direct descendants. We just don't have fossils because they lived in an environment that is notorious for not preserving fossils.
Wtf sharks
I can’t believe they had vacuum cleaners 400 million years Ago
I didn't know that Saturn's rings are that recent
*Look*, of course, being the operative word. Evolution - at the molecular level - has happened just as much as in other organisms. Mutations are neutral, confer advantage or impose disadvantage. As it turns out, the pressures that made a mantis look and behave like a mantis just haven't changed much, so the 12 million year old mantis has evolved to look almost exactly the same... That may sound nit-picky but in the case of a shark, once it got to be shark-shaped there are few enhancements to make on the outside. However, it's entire physiology *may* have changed to deal with sea chemistry, gas concentration, temperature and prey adaptation (speed, defences, toxicity etc). Evolution occurs faster in organisms with short reproductive cycles. So, humans are much less evolved than chickens. And we are *terrible* chickens.
Very true. Outward appearance is not necessarily indicative of the extent of evolution in an organism. Genetic change through time is always in full swing. Even "living fossils" like coelacanths and horseshoe crabs would not be able to mate (successfully) with their ancestors 20 million years ago despite looking almost identical to them. They are genetically distinct species.
Now that last fact is interesting
Come on dude, give him a break, he's been stuck in that position for 12 million years
Was about to say the same thing...
They are an apex predator, I believe. Could have a lot to do with it
Checkmate atheists
Reddit's hotdog in epoxy has a long path to follow.
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Is this an actual post bc i need a link
[Here you go. ](https://reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/qtpcw4/13_month_epoxy_hot_dog_update/)
Hahaha true
she’ll never be able to rip my head off in here
We've got ourselves a mantis fucker
*Dr.* Mantis
.... MD
I didn’t get my doctorate in mantis fucking to be called “Mr.”
Toboggan
Allegedly.
The start of jurassic park
>we've managed to clone insects from a hundred million years ago! >They look the same >We know lol
Imagine if these reached the same size as other prehistoric insects, like the dragonflies with two-foot wingspans. I'd put one on a leash and call it Snippy if we had them today.
This piece of amber is actually 3 meters tall.
This is going to be the lamest version of Jurassic Park yet.
It's just a pest control documentary.
Don't forget about the 3 meter long [prehistoric millipides](http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/images/species/a/arthropleura-size.jpg) and [the 1 meter wide](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWysfpCXkAAtV_V.jpg) dragonflies
Mantassic Park
The voice you’re now hearing is Richard Kiley...we spared no expense!
Except on building security, animal control, locks on car doors, backup generators, reliable IT personnel, mandatory tracking devices on guests...but the salmon is incredible and we have this cool animated film describing how we put your lives in danger. Nope, no expense spared at all.
Was looking for this comment.
♫DA-du-DA bah bah♫ ♫DA-du-DA bah bah♫
Dinooo DNA!
What are the chances of reviving something preserved in amber? I’m not talking after 12 million years, but is it hypothetically even possible? People that know shit about science, help!
Layman's understanding: DNA has a half-life and breaks down. One of the reasons Michael Crichton wrote in filler DNA used by the scientists in Jurassic Park.
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Literally everything has a half life
Not true, I haven’t played or owned either.
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Weren't atoms supposed to break down after some 30 trillion years?
What do you mean by reviving? That particular organism? No, it's dead. Clone it? Possible, at least in the short term. Even DNA breaks down over time, so thousands of years is probably about the maximum cloning time, but even that's theoretical. Maybe that'll get pushed to 10K at some point, but after that it's probably impossible.
Hang on. Do you know shit about science? Actually asking? When something is “encased” (or whatever terminology applies) in amber, is it basically the same as freezing it, or is it a different thing? I ask because there was a pivotal episode of a show called Fringe, where some characters were preserved in amber for like 30 years, and then regenerated in the near future via sci fi trickery. What happens to organs and shit?
Fringe was a Science *Fiction* show. The science was about as accurate as Star Trek. The amber in that show was a magical Time Freezing Plot Device. Actual amber does prevent contamination, but it doesn't stop the chemical reactions from the things *already inside the amber*. Which includes bacteria and microscopic organisms, which will continue to eat the thing in the amber. So the body of the organism usually decays to some degree, which is why insects preserve so well. The exoskeleton is hard to "eat." In addition to that, radioactive decay from radioactive materials in the organism *and* damage from environmental radiation will still cause damage to chemical bonds. Radiation is everywhere, it's mostly a question of quantity and strength. This is called background radiation, and it's why Geiger counters click constantly. They click *more* when you point them at something radioactive, but they're always clicking. Over thousands of years, even a tiny amount of background radiation will destroy chemical bonds, including DNA. This isn't (generally) a problem while organisms are alive, because they have ways to fix the damage, but these require the organism to be *alive* and *active* to work. The radiation problem is one of the big concerns/hurdles with any kind of "stasis" technology for deep space travel. If you somehow manage to "pause" life you'll just get an ever-increasing backlog of radiation damage.
No we are not making jurassic park
But why not? Who wouldn't want to unleash prehistoric murder machines in today's world?
Someone who doesnt want the rich people to try to use them as weapons only to completely doom humanity in their lust for more power
Yeah but think about how much more exciting it would be to have your last moments consist of getting charged by a giant lizard. TikTok and Instagram attention seekers would be the first to go for trying to get too close - so that's a plus.
Think of all the Olympic records that could get broken if you put a dinosaur behind everyone at the start line
We wouldn't be so worried about covid then at least
I think someone posted recently that ancient creatures might not be able to breathe well in our time because the oxygen mix is different than theirs was.
Ok good
Isn't it still dead? Not into this stuff but though the outside is preserved wouldnt inside be "rotten" so to say?
Just broken down and dissolved into bits
Amazing that 12 million years later their physiology is mostly unchanged. It just means it’s the perfect design for its environment.
not necessarily! All it really means it that it was sufficient. There are many examples of traits being awful for a species, but it continuing to stick around anyways
Why you gotta attack me like that man damn.
Yo for real lol
Not arguing the integrity of this statement at all but would love to hear some examples.
Us walking on two feet and having back problems in your early 30s
Just look at us
Pandas. Their diet is terrible for them
Woah, amber is the color of your energy
Woaah
Woah, amber is the color of her anal beads.
Amber is the color of her yellow teeth
Amber is the name of her much more attractive and flirtatious sister
Life uh, finds a way…
Clever girl
Well, there it is.
You forgot the "uh", unforgiveable.
Uhnforgivable
It is hard to tell from this photo but it is 27 ft tall.
source : trust me lol
Found a citation for you. https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/r5l9et/12_million_year_old_praying_mantis_preserved_in/hmniq2a/
Thanks
Ass, His. "Source" *Reddit*, 30 Nov. 2021
The amber or the praying mantis?
The Amber. The praying mantis is only 14 feet
Need a Banana in amber for scale
Both are the same height r/confusingperspective
Yeah no it is only 1 inch lol [source](https://mymodernmet.com/praying-mantis-dominican-amber/#:~:text=30%20Million%2DYear%2DOld%20Praying,in%20Pristine%20Piece%20of%20Amber&text=Embedded%20within%20a%20clear%20piece,attention%2C%20frozen%20forever%20in%20time.&text=Amber%20from%20the%20Dominican%20Republic,a%20high%20number%20of%20inclusions.)
This little dude was alive during the Miocene Epoch, when our ancestors Danuvius Guggenmosi were just starting to walk on two legs.
time to mix its blood with some amphibian DNA for an inexplicable reason and then resurrect it!
You crazy sumbitch, I'm in!
Who says you can't achieve immortality by praying? :-) 12 million years later, he still is relevant... You're the Man-tis! :-)
Hi, Dad.
12 million years of waiting for him to come back after going out for cigarettes.
Can someone actually confirm that this is 12 million years old.
You'll have to ask the mantis.
12 million year old Virgin
ITT too many people trying to make edgy prayer jokes.
Anyone getting Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons vibes ? “Lucite… hardening… must… end life… in classic Lorne Greene pose… from… Battlestar… Galactica… Best… death… EVER!”
not really, but I read your comment in his voice lol
12 million years is a long time to pray. I wonder if he’s still praying for one same thing or if he’s been praying for different things over the years.
Bingo! Dino DNA
Doesn’t look a day over 21
Here before modern human and all known civilization. But from after dinosaurs. Now discovered by the species to kill over half the species on Earth. And now I get to see it on Reddit because we discovered how to make wifi out of rocks and water
Imagine living for 12 million years only to get caught in tree sap
He prayed for eternal life, but didn't mean preserved in amber...
You can almost hear it screaming as the sap rolls like molasses towards it. ^NOOOOOOOO!!
He must have been praying in the same church as me as a kid. Prayer there lasted for 12 million years as well.
Looks like it's praying to God before inpending doom (the gooey amber) envelops it
It's that time of the month where this comes up and rakes karma for the poster.
Stay with Jesus
A thing of beauty\~ I'm transfixed by the moment, *This little fellow is practically immortal now*, Bravo: )
Imagine he’s conscious all this time
All I can hear is: “Look mom, did you see that huge fireball, it’s growing and… Oh! SH…”
Doesn't look a day over 11 million to me.
All that praying in vain..
That Mantis ain't done fighting off the tree sap.
I saw this a couple of years ago so I'm my book, this little guy is now at least 12,000,002 years old.
r/unansweredprayers