Even if there are something inside those Amber that had been burnt up, they were too insignificant to be noticed. Unlike all those intact samples that you can clearly see that it was an animal
So easy when talking about it, but the shear age of these creatures frozen in time is simply mind bending. Just imagine an insect discovered in amber 140 million years old was already 100 million years old when the mating flies in amber, 40 millions year old, were discovered.
I just came up with a brilliant idea.They should find a mosquito that bit a dinosaur and got frozen in amber. Then they could extract the dinosaur DNA and clone one.
I once heard about this, I think they tried it in some movie... maybe even a franchise. But yeah they were pretty successful in bringing back dinosaurs, as they even managed to get a T-rex or two from it 🤣🤣🤣.
I love this guy's enthusiasm! I enjoy seeing the smile on his face as he discusses amber. I love the scent of natural amber perfume paste (in Quebec) and amber incense. -Thank you for this video. 🏆
Insane to think that the specimens preserved in amber are potentially 10 times as old, if not older, as the oldest known hominid fossil ever discovered, absolutely mind blowing.
My prized specimen of my crystal collection is a nice piece of amber with an big black ant in the center of it. I found it hunting in the forest up in the Northern Shield of Canada 🇨🇦
I call bullshit. Do you realise how far down in the earth amber that Holdd fossilised insects is ? It's 10's or even hundreds of feet. And you " found it " Lol why lie
@@daggermouth4695 Amber erodes from underwater deposits and washes up on beaches all over the world regularly. Humans have been finding it and using it for jewelry and art for more than ten thousand years. In places like Canada and the Baltic sea walking beaches after a storm to find amber washed up by the waves is a common past time.
@@daggermouth4695 It's rare but not unheard of. I have a piece a friend found along the Baltic sea that has a pine needle in it. There were lots of ants and lots of conifers producing lots of sap at the time.
There are easier ways to tell if it's fake or not. Amber floats in salt water, plastic does not. Real amber smells like pine when poked with a red hot needle, fakes smell like plastic. The feel of it also is a giveaway.
So those big garbage islands floating in the oceans with tons and tons of plastic floating in salt water proves you correct Plastic doesn't float in salt water
It would be much better if the insects in the amber photo's came with names & dates attached. The more details, the better, but very interesting nonetheless.
omg, for a second you meant that the insects etc in the amber should labelled inside the amber but suddenly realized you were telling the maker of the video to be kind enough to put information on the photos of the amber inclusions. I also thought the video would be a lot better if we could identify what we were looking at. It all looked like sooty dirt to me. Other than a few obvious things anyone could see, but it would be nice to know what they are called, or at least what we should looking for. Which is a shame. I have seen some amazing photos of stuff in amber. I wish you had included them. The "you" I'm referring to is the maker of the video in the last past of my comment.
Excellent video but I would have liked a text description to identify those many exquisite example specimens you show because I'm left wondering just what they are...
What happens if Ancient humans and mummy specialist from Ancient Egypt or Ancient China knew that you can preserve body in Amber so perfectly 100% intact???? Could you imagine how amazing it would be to see the ""Pharaoh"" in their original appearances???
Ironically, they did use resin- but on the wrappings. But would have been wild if they just dunked the whole pharoah in resin, let it dry and then thousands of years later, we would be looking at a pharoah that was barely decomposed!
@@pegasusgenesis360 well I can understand why Ancient Egyptians did not have knowledge that resin in a big amount can preserve dead body in a very perfect state. Because it is very hard to find the examples. Even now people had to dig and hope they will be lucky enough to find one intact example of dead animals or insects covered with hardened resin. If only the Ancient Egyptian have one example, they could be doing wonderful things with the resin.
Hey mom, I found some amber with a mosquito in it. It's Millions of years old. My mom as she slaps her arm and kills a modern day mosquito, "Well I guess some creatures never evolve" Wait, What?
The only reason for the tropical climate covering most of land then was because there was no antarctic circumpolar current. Ocean heat was spread more evenly and no arctic dipole events could exist.
What's so cool about the this video one of the things they talk about the separation of Amber and the depressurization which creates the effects. What's even more awesome than that is the molecular structure change in the embers or any organic or synthetic material that is initiated during the the pressurization stage.. Ok like for instance gems and other material of minerals and rocks when interacted with some of those other elements during that process liquefy..
I cannot find much info about humans being trapped in Amber as well. They do portray this in the TV show "Fringe " . There's lots of truth in that show . It'll blow your mind
Micheal Creighton, the Auther of the book Jurassic Park is very well researched. You can tell from reading his book, a lot of it is very technical rambling.
He notes that amber floats, as a test of its genuineness -- this isn't always true; some amber sinks, which is how it's ended up on seafloors along coasts.
I used to live in Norfolk which is in East Anglia, England. Getting up before sunrise and walking along the beach after a storm you could see the amber glowing on the beach as the sun came up.
The process of fossilization is fairly well understood,, as examples of every step of the process have been found in nature. _Fascinating stuff, indeed._
I thought insects were enormous Millions of years ago. How come only those tiny buggers got stuck and never ever a piece of a gigantic antenna for example? That would really be awesome!
Insects were only big until birds came along and made being big bad for survival, oxygen levels were also quite lower during the dinosaur period compared to the carboniferous when large insects roamed.
@@own4801 there’s no such thing as a Carboniferous period, Jurassic period, Triassic, Permian etc. it’s all part of the stupid geologic column that doesn’t exist anywhere except in the imagination.
Instead of polishing off the Amber (a substrate, not color) to find Bio Inclusions, could they do a Micro Photogrammetric X Ray? A detailed 3D interior map of the Amber? - Ok, never mind 😄.
People have been using Amber to make jewelry, for at least 4000 years. I wonder if any pieces of old jewelry that was ever found later on, to have an inclusion of some interest?
Such a great presentation! Thank you. Who would have known two flys would be the beginnings of the Kama Sutra? Why do I have to continuously go back to edit my posts? It seems the words and spelling change for no reason at all. Why is that? 👍🇺🇸
I am more than 16 minutes in and the video is still talking about the boring experiences of the researchers, completely tangential to the main story, if there is one. I am pretty sure that if you do a google scholar search on fossils in amber, a gazillion number of interesting results would appear so that you can still make a 40+ minute video without the clutter.
Yeah, it's not a blockbuster Hollywood film meant to grasp the viewer's attention. It's a discussion of scientific minds that have dedicated their lives to such research.
Monash Univ. should try brightfield or some yop lighting with no BG, just open to the air. This shows all colors and also the 3d environment. All I see here is "brown" imamges on yellow lite BG. YUCK! I am surprised at the bad microscopy lighting. I have technique that shows full color clear as glass. The bleached white and yellow BG may show light through the insect but I prefer surface details.
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