Of course, most prized amber inclusions are remarkably complete and well preserved. Sometimes, however, an incomplete insect can be just as interesting. A leg, found by itself, tells a story. It makes you wonder what happened to the rest of the insect and how it lost the leg. Of course, those two facts may be tied to a single event. It's possible that the leg may have been discarded by a predator which ate the rest of the bug or it may have been discarded by the insect itself while attempting to escape the resin.

In either of those two scenarios you can be pretty sure that all that remains of this insect is what is contained in this piece of amber, the rest of it being eaten or decayed millions of years ago, even if it did manage to escape the resin and live out its life minus this leg. There is a small chance that the insect lost this leg only two get caught in another resin flow which also fossilized into amber and so it could be that another piece of amber contains the rest of this bug, but the odds are against it.

As shown on page two a number of other items can be found in this stone, including part of a wing that may have come from the same insect!