You Can Make Amber Fossils in 24 Hours, Instead of Millions of Years
Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...
Scientists create lab-grown amber-like resin to study fossil preservation
The Field Museum in Chicago and the Foundation for Scientific Advancement reported that sediment-encased maturation of pine ...
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Amber & Poland: A History Crafted in Resin
Amber, the fossilised tree resin, is often known as ‘The Gold of the North’ or the ‘Gem of the Baltic’, because of its beautiful colour. According to the first Polish monograph devoted to it, the 1833 ...
Wasp preserved in 99 million-year-old amber ‘beyond imagination,’ scientists say
A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism to ...
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Stories in the Amber
This is a petal from the flower of the now-extinct species of algarrobo tree whose resin was the source of all Dominican amber. Without this single species of tree, the fabulously rich community ...
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Amber Time Machine
Our bee was among the resin gatherers. Off she skimmed with her companions, winding through the shadowy, towering amber forest, dodging the vines and lianas, avoiding tree trunks where hungry ...
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Creature preserved in 99 million-year-old amber was ‘beyond imagination,’ scientists say
Besides plants and flowers, a dinosaur tail, a crab, a hell ant, a spider mom and her young, and a firefly have been found entombed in globs of tree resin.A fossil enthusiast purchased the amber ...