Scared out of its skin, ancient insect escaped sticky doom

Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 14:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Brooks HaysCORVALLIS, Ore., July 14 (UPI) -- Fifty million years ago, one lucky insect avoided amber entombment by shedding its skin and getting away, leaving its exoskeleton to be fossilized.

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