amber fossil
Solidified tree secretion
An amber fossil is a plant or animal specimen preserved in fossilized tree resin.
Insects, spiders, and small organisms trapped in sticky resin millions of years ago remain remarkably intact as the resin hardens into amber: The amber fossil revealed a mosquito from the Cretaceous period.
These specimens provide exceptional detail about ancient life forms.
- resinViscous plant secretion
- tree sapFluid from woody plants
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- insectSix-legged invertebrate
- trappedUnable to escape
trapped in time · preserved · golden · ancient · mosquito · Jurassic · Jurassic Park · petrified · tree · sap · specimen · inclusion · extinct · translucent · hardened · Baltic · copal · DNA