https://www.cnet.com/news/ticks-worst-day-ever-frozen-in-amber-for-100-million-years/ > This is a story of life and death, of a struggle ultimately lost. It's the story of an ancient tick's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. And the drama's all captured in amber. > Around 100 million years ago, during the Cretaceous, a tick wandered into a spider web. It tried to break free, but the web's owner caught up to it and wrapped it up in a bundle of silk. As if that wasn't bad enough, a drop of amber fell on the tick, encasing it for modern science to discover all these years later.