Images: Amazing Dominican Amber Trove

Electrotettix attenboroughi
A newly-discovered pygmy locust species in Dominican amber.
(Image credit: Jared Thomas, Illinois Natural History Survey)

New fossil finds

Wasp

(Image credit: Jared Thomas, Illinois Natural History Survey)
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