Tue. 07/19 - DIY 4 Lyfe & Death
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Want to give a special someone a gift they'll truly love this Valentine's Day? |
| 0:04.8 | Treat them to something that never goes out of style. |
| 0:07.7 | A beautiful bouquet of 12 red roses. |
| 0:11.1 | They're classic for a reason. |
| 0:12.9 | And all for just £15 at Waitrose. |
| 0:16.3 | Selected lines and stores. |
| 0:17.6 | Subject to availability ends 14th of February. |
| 0:27.9 | Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february it's tuesday july 19th 22 i'm jacksonberg today three species frozen in time within one single piece of amber plus the, the DIYers building their own coffins. |
| 0:41.3 | And Costco has promised not to raise the price of their rotisserie chickens. |
| 0:46.4 | But is that a good thing? |
| 0:48.2 | Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. |
| 0:53.1 | The dude who inspired the whole extracting insect DNA from Amber plot of Jurassic Park |
| 1:00.0 | has just made another remarkable discovery. George Poinard Jr., an entomologist whose early work |
| 1:07.0 | did indeed involve extracting DNA from insects entombed in amber, although without the |
| 1:12.2 | whole dinosaur resurrection thing, recently found another insect in an amber sample, but not just |
| 1:18.8 | an insect, an insect, a plant, and a developing fly larva. It's a whole microcosm preserved |
| 1:27.1 | inside one single sample of amber. Now, the insect happens to |
| 1:31.7 | be of a new species of wasp that Poinar himself discovered a few years ago, called a Hambletonia |
| 1:37.6 | Dominicana. And the flower is an even more recent discovery. In fact, this study marks the first |
| 1:43.3 | fossil record of the plant's |
| 1:44.9 | entire genus, dubbed Plukinisha. And this particular species of flower was named Plukinisha minima by |
| 1:52.0 | Poinar. Now, as for the amber that trapped these three life forms together millions of years ago, |
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