FACTS ABOUT AMBER
- Aswatha Biju
- Jul 24, 2020
- 1 min read
Amber is a kind of resin that originates from the Amber tree. Generally it's different from the normal resins, they are too colourful and attractive due to which many kinds of prehistorically unknown and unidentified birds, leaf’s and reptiles are found to be in this magnificent world of resin.These Amber's come under the category of true form fossil.
In general :Since;they are too fragrant and lustres; flying insects and birds get attracted thinking it as honey and get stuck into its beauty trap and soon preserves as a mummified fossil, for instance: dragonfly.
Although some prehistoric flora are in the form of living fossil in the existing world, Amber producing tree are one of the oldest living fossil that produce resin that lived 320 million year ago in the Carboniferous period.
It's said that most of the Amber fossil that was identified actually obtained from various trees like Pine tree, Conifers and so on…. but, still amber do not exist in its own tree they are under the ownership of Pine, Conifers and others because amber exuded so long.
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