A praying mantis preserved in amber for millions of years not a sculpture, but a real prehistoric insect trapped in tree resin and fossilized into a natural time capsule.
An entire moment from ancient Earth… frozen before humans even existed.
Check out : https://www.natureknows.org/2024/02/30-million-year-old-praying-mantis-is.html


Not more than it is now, it’s just such a huge amount of time that smaller creatures have had to find themselves in those situations. Some thousands to 250 million years ago is a loooooong time for bugs and other critters to end up as amber fossils.