My kingdom for a fossil Several years ago at the home of a fellow collector friend, he saw a palm-sized lump of golden amber from the Cretaceous period, unearthed in Colombia. Inside it was a mushroom from an ancient forest, and he could see a pocket of air with a tiny drop of water that moved around inside it, and a group of ants on the march.
傾家蕩產買化石幾年前在收藏家朋友那看到一枚南美哥倫比亞出土，手掌大、白堊紀年代的金黃色琥珀，琥珀中有一朵古代森林的磨菇，還可以看到可移動的空氣、小水滴，並散佈著成群的白蟻。