Amber’s naturally soft color is appreciated by connoisseurs the world over. In China, the gem has been regarded as sacred since ancient times. It is one of China’s seven Buddhist treasures, along with ...

It's likely you're already quite familiar with amber, it's used frequently in jewellery and if you've watched the (numerous) Jurassic Park movies you may remember the scientists extracting dinosaur ...

For many thousands of years, the fossilized tree resin known as amber has entranced jewelry makers and inspired the scientific imagination. For the past 200 years especially, paleontologists around ...

With many notes in perfumery, you know precisely what they are outside of the bottle. The best citrus perfumes all have, well, citrus. Ditto for the best lavender perfumes. But amber perfume is a bit ...

Russia’s Kaliningrad Amber Combine is ‘the only enterprise in the world that mines amber on an industrial scale,’ says chief geologist Alexey Korkin China is the largest buyer of Russian amber, while ...

Birds do it, bees do it, even ancient long-legged flies did it… At least this pair did — until they were suffocated in a glob of tree resin around 40 million years ago. Scientists found thousands of ...

atthew Downen had never done anything like this before. In a hotel room in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, he watched as a dealer poured a bag of amber fossils onto a white towel ...

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