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That Time Earth was Sticky
"The Cretaceous Resinous Interval, a 54-million year period where amber was preserved in hundreds of locations across the world, was a gooey, gummy point in Earth's history - and then amber suddenly disappeared for another 20 million years. So, we have to ask: what exactly made this time period so very, very sticky?"
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