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Have you ever seen a lace bug? Don’t let their pretty name fool you—even though they’re dainty as a doily, they’re tough little bugs. You may have encountered lace bugs in your garden or on houseplants, since they’re herbivorous sap-drinkers. Though they only feed on plants, their bite can sting!

They were once entombed within frozen soil, lying buried for sixty-nine million years. Only now are we beginning to discover Dinosaur Age Alaska, from its perilous seas with veritable leviathans, to snowy forests ruled by pygmy tyrants. Alaska’s prehistoric past comes to life like never before, and in detail more spectacular than ever imaginable.

508-million-year-old fossils of the shrimp-like Waptia is the first evidence of an animal caring for their offspring.