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Dr. Richard Harrington, vice-president of the UK’s Royal Entomological Society, bought a fossilized insect on eBay and it turned out to be a previously unknown species of aphid. He bought the insect, which was encased in a 40-50 million-year-old piece of amber, for £20 (about $37). “It’s a rather unusual route to come by (a …

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