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A mosquito trapped in amber, though it may be 25 to 50 million years old, isn’t old enough to hold dinosaur DNA. The dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period. The Jurassic period was 144 million years ago. But molecular biologist have extracted DNA from a weevil that was trapped in amber 120 to 135 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

This amber was from the Lower Cretaceous period and was mined in the mountains of Lebanon, south of Beirut, by Aftim Acra. Acra has a collection of amber pieces containing 700 insects, including termites, moths, caterpillars, spiders, and midges, which suck blood.

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