Fossilization of the future is here.

Forget sediments, minerals crystallizing and all that other boring stuff — the task that Mother Nature has been charged with for billions of years can now be outsourced to 3D printers.

On Thursday, an engineering professor who was 3D-printing a honeycomb model accidentally gave fossilization a modern treatment when a fly got stuck in the structure.

Eifion Jewell, a professor at Swansea University in Wales, told Gizmodo that he was not sure how the fly ended up there.

“[The fly] settled in there during the print,” Jewell said. “Don’t know what attracted him or why he decided to take a break when he did, but it led to his undoing.”

His colleague, Richard Johnston, was not on hand for this turning point in Geology, but shared a photo to Twitter with a nod to the current “Anthropocene” era dominated by human activity.