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The third volume of My Little Amber Room: Microscopy for Kids will tell you about the original trees that produced the resin that fossilized into amber after millions of years. You will learn about impurities in amber like bivalve borings and stellate hairs. One chapter is dedicated to pseudoinclusions, which are not real inclusions of animal or botanical matter at all but merely corroded air bubbles that look strikingly like plants or lichen. Of course, there will be lots of photos again from our private collection; for example, you will get to see a cockroach laying an egg sac, a webspinner hatching, and snakefly larvae wriggling with only their first two body segments sclerotized. You can admire several different weevils (snout beetles) with very long and shorter rostrums. Of high interest are also the mantises and mantisflies with their raptorial front limbs, as well as the unique-headed bug. The final chapter is about rare things in amber to which belong snails with their soft parts preserved. This book is geared towards school-aged children who love fossils, and we hope you have lots of fun with it and learn something new.
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The third volume of My Little Amber Room: Microscopy for Kids will tell you about the original trees that produced the resin that fossilized into amber after millions of years. You will learn about impurities in amber like bivalve borings and stellate hairs. One chapter is dedicated to pseudoinclusions, which are not real inclusions of animal or botanical matter at all but merely corroded air bubbles that look strikingly like plants or lichen. Of course, there will be lots of photos again from our private collection; for example, you will get to see a cockroach laying an egg sac, a webspinner hatching, and snakefly larvae wriggling with only their first two body segments sclerotized. You can admire several different weevils (snout beetles) with very long and shorter rostrums. Of high interest are also the mantises and mantisflies with their raptorial front limbs, as well as the unique-headed bug. The final chapter is about rare things in amber to which belong snails with their soft parts preserved. This book is geared towards school-aged children who love fossils, and we hope you have lots of fun with it and learn something new.
This is the hard copy version. The e-book for USD 3 is here: https://www.lulu.com/de/shop/christina-lyons/my-little-amber-room-microscopy-for-kids-vol-3/ebook/product-rm8rqg5.html?page=1&pageSize=4
