Amber Inclusions Scorpion & Spider Fighting Forever...LOL

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Amber Inclusions Scorpion & Spider Fighting Forever...LOL

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Here are some photograph of a Dominican Amber Fossil.
Scorpion fighting with a Spider
I'm new in posting in the gallery, your comments / suggestions / questions are most welcome
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Very, very cool! I especially like #2 and #5.

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Remarkable photos of a remarkable specimen.

I'm surprised that the amber is so clear.

Are you worried about fake amber inclusions? There seems to be a large amber-inclusion-making industry in some countries.

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Thanks for your messages and comments
I'm pretty aware of fake amber in a wide range variety as i'm leaving in China, that's a cruel reality... :roll:
However, my studio/workshop/2nd home is located in the Dominican Republic and as i pick the specimens directly with miners on a "as rough as possible" state to process them myself according to my needs, i can guarantee that all my specimens are 100% Genuine.

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Very cool! The oval-ish object below the scorpion in the first picture is likely the elytra of a beetle.
One can not be sure if the scorpion and spider were in the midst of battle. But I do see the scorpion has several thin strands of what might be spider silk tangled around it. So maybe they were!
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Wow! Awesome pics of an awesome sample.
Have you posted about your setup anywhere? My focus is gem inclusions so the technical needs are very similar.

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i haven't posted about my setup no, in fact my studio is in the Dominican Republic and i am since the beginning of the pandemic in China
I only have a terrible photograph of it for now.....i shoot amber fossils rather my setup... :lol: :lol: :lol:

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i pick the specimens directly with miners
Wow, what luck you have! That is a great privilege. It must be tremendously exciting to be the first to see them (after the miners).

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Lou Jost wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:13 am
i pick the specimens directly with miners
Wow, what luck you have! That is a great privilege. It must be tremendously exciting to be the first to see them (after the miners).
Indeed...specially because most of the time beside main "big" inclusion we can find super interesting tiny ones :smt007

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I looked up the Dominican amber deposits. They tend to be around 25 million years old.
It was my privilege, many years ago, to sort through a large number of insects in amber that dated back to the Cretaceous (so over 65 million years ago). Although nothing as rare as this, it was still incredible to see insects (mostly small parasitic wasps) whose eyes could have seen dinosaurs before they were entombed. And yet they looked ordinary. Braconid and Pteromalid wasps, with the same diagnostic anatomy of modern examples of the families.
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MarkSturtevant wrote:
Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:18 pm
I looked up the Dominican amber deposits. They tend to be around 25 million years old.
It was my privilege, many years ago, to sort through a large number of insects in amber that dated back to the Cretaceous (so over 65 million years ago). Although nothing as rare as this, it was still incredible to see insects (mostly small parasitic wasps) whose eyes could have seen dinosaurs before they were entombed. And yet they looked ordinary. Braconid and Pteromalid wasps, with the same diagnostic anatomy of modern examples of the families.
Even Scientist like D. Grimaldi or G.O Poinard still have divergent opinion about Dominican Amber considering the eastern deposit and Santiago (Cordillera Septentrional) As i'm not a scientist myself i just pick large on the books and a with a fork between 15-45M years we should cover the spectrum...LOL

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stunning shots, can you give me an idea about the size of this inclusion

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lothman wrote:
Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:09 pm
stunning shots, can you give me an idea about the size of this inclusion
Thanks for your comments.
In the 2nd photograph there's a millimeter scale, the total length of the inclusion is about +/-7mm (0.2755906 inch)

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