Burmese amber

<p>Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is <a href="/facts/Amber/GHP6h5gx">amber</a> from the <a href="/facts/Hukawng_Valley/KdBpz3Gm">Hukawng Valley</a> in northern <a href="/facts/Myanmar/zcqQH2oE">Myanmar</a>. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest <a href="/facts/Albian/faHcmHDC">Albian</a> to earliest <a href="/facts/Cenomanian/atR50Pe7">Cenomanian</a> ages of the mid-<a href="/facts/Cretaceous/nwKtFtKx">Cretaceous</a> period. The amber is of significant palaeontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly <a href="/facts/Arthropod/JKJLTFzp">arthropods</a> including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains. The amber has been known and commercially exploited since the first century AD, and has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century. Research on the deposit has attracted controversy due to the potential role of the amber trade in funding <a href="/facts/Internal_conflict_in_Myanmar/fl2oVQoV">internal conflict in Myanmar</a> and hazardous working conditions in the mines where it is collected.
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Burmese amber open-in-new

Burmese amber