how much do you think he is sellin it for

Blimey looks like everyone is selling these on ebay, thing is i suppose which ones are real fossils, they start from literally pence to £275. Pretty good though, id love to find one ..

aha ive seen that on eBay. its been on for awhile now.
his eBay fees must me pretty high..

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Is that supposed to be a prehistoric mantis in sap?

Looks like one that has been set in acrylic or some other sort of plastic to me.

Idolomantis diabolica
Hymenopus coronatus
Phyllocrania paradoxa
Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii
Sphodromantis lineola
Alalomantis coxalis
Polyspilota aeruginosa
Hierodula Membranacea

Nearly all of the large insects that are in posed positions are faked from reconstituted amber filings. You have to remember that the insects get traped as the sap flows so usually they are crumpled and hard to define in real ones. I have a small fly that a friend brought back from Aus for me.

Its fruitfly sized and the amber piece is smaller than a pea, I think its genuine as if your going to fake it do something more valuable

be carfull..theres alot of great fakes out of there that claim there real,

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it was goin 4 £330 ish lol

thats not fake, its the really old mantis thing, i saw one ages ago for £120, if that was fake its extrememly well preserved over like 100 million years, but freezers wernt invented then, arnt they like 20cm?

think so how cool will tht be if mantids tht big

What is it being sold as, 'coz that's no mantis?