The Lost World.

On display as part of the Amazing Amber exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, is this piece of motion picture history.

Made for Steven Spielberg's popular 1993 dinosaur epic Jurassic Park, this is the actual amber-topped cane - complete with a crane fly embedded as a fake inclusion - that we see in the hand of Richard Attenborough's character John Hammond.

In Michael Crichton's original model, as well as the film, it is the discovery of mosquitoes trapped in amber still gorged on dinosaur blood after 65 million years that allows DNA to be accessed and sequenced, allowing for the genomes for long-extinct species to be constructed and subsequently resurrected. Insects from tarantulas to bees and wasps have been indeed been found embedded within this naturally-occuring but fossilised plant resin, the oldest being two mites found in Italy in 2012 in a sample dated to be 230 million years old - but only two mosquitos have ever been found preserved.

Whereas amber perfectly preserves plant and insect samples of such antiquity, the recreation of long-dead terrible lizards is still science fiction.