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welcome to the good news ride home for monday July 6th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

Scientists have discovered insects that have retained their shine after 99 million years.

How to properly read an election poll, plus a little on Kanye West's presidential campaign,

after perhaps the most explosive Fourth of July in decades here in the States,

is America now running out of fireworks?

And the most American thing ever happened in Alaska over the weekend.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Starting today with a discovery scientists have made based on 99 million-year-old insect fossils preserved in amber.

But don't worry, the discovery is not that they were able to extract

dinosaur DNA from the preserved blood-sucking insects. Not this time. No, the researchers at the

Nanjing Institute of Geology and paleontology were able to uncover something fossils usually can't

tell us, the original colors of the specimens. In a new paper published in the journal Proceedings

of the Royal Society B, the team describes three ancient insects they found that are perfectly

preserved in amber, including the original coloring and iridescence. Quoting popular science,

the insects can be dated back to the Cretaceous period, which occurred 99 million

years ago. The animals were all preserved in pieces of amber from a mine in northern Myanmar.

The insects, a beetle, a fly, and a wasp are so well preserved in the amber that their true

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