{"id":12612,"date":"2023-02-04T00:16:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12612"},"modified":"2023-03-21T00:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:19:20","slug":"the-old-man-in-the-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/04\/the-old-man-in-the-amber\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Man In The Amber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/praying-mantis-dominican-amber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from My Modern Met<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Is Preserved in Pristine Piece of Amber<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/author\/jessica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jessica Stewart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/praying-mantis-amber-heritage-auctions-4.jpeg\" alt=\"Praying Mantis in Amber\" class=\"wp-image-150067\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Picture courtesy of Heritage Auctions,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.HA.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-150067\">Embedded within a clear piece of amber, a small praying mantis sits at attention, frozen forever in time. The piece, which measures just slightly over one inch tall, was sold via\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heritage Auctions<\/a>\u00a0for $6,000 in 2016. The pristine piece of amber, which comes from the Dominican Republic, gives a rare view of this incredible mantis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The amber itself derives from the extinct&nbsp;<em>Hymenaea protera<\/em>, a prehistoric leguminous tree. Most amber found in Central and South America comes from its resin. Amber from the Dominican Republic is known as Dominican resin, which is noted for its clarity and a high number of inclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heritage Auctions dates the piece in question to the Oligocene period, placing it anywhere from\u00a0about 23 million\u00a0 to 33.9 million years old. It&#8217;s an important period of time where the archaic\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eocene\" target=\"_blank\">Eocene<\/a>\u00a0transitions into more modern ecosystems of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miocene\" target=\"_blank\">Miocene<\/a>\u00a0period, which lasted until 5 million years ago. Incredibly, the mantis itself doesn&#8217;t appear so different from what we see today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/praying-mantis-dominican-amber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at My Modern Met<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from My Modern Met 30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Is Preserved in Pristine Piece of Amber By\u00a0Jessica Stewart Embedded within a clear piece of amber, a small praying mantis sits at attention, frozen forever in time. The piece, which measures just slightly over one inch tall, was sold via\u00a0Heritage Auctions\u00a0for $6,000 in 2016. The pristine piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}