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 ...

Within a 5-centimeter (2-inch) thick layer of lignite (moist coal) the team found pieces of hardened tree resin, better known as amber. Based on the age and composition of the lignite the amber is ...

Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved in fossilized amber. This, so far, oldest and only ...

The salamander managed to escape but then must have fallen into a pool of tree resin, which preserved the tiny amphibian as it hardened into amber. George Poinar, Jr., a biologist at Oregon State ...

Amber is fossilised tree resin. The sticky substance can trap skin, scales, fur, feathers or even whole creatures, such as ticks. In this case, the researchers found a type of tick, now extinct ...

Frogs trapped in amber for 99 million years are giving a glimpse of a lost world. The tiny creatures have been preserved in sticky tree resin since the end of the Age of the Dinosaurs. The four ...

Amber was found in western Antarctica, revealing fossilized tree resin over 40,000 years old, providing a new glimpse into the continent’s verdant past. (Source: Alfred Wegener Institute ...

THAT the classical account of the origin of amber has not been sufficiently ... to the number and character of the trees or plants from which the resin exuded in long past ages; but speculation ...

Amber close amberHardened tree resin. is a substance that is formed from hardened tree sap or resin. This allows the whole organism to be seen clearly. Britain's most famous peat bog body is known ...