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World's Oldest Amber Comes From a World 150 Million Years Before Dinosaurs - ScienceAlert
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Michelle Starr
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Paleontologists in China have discovered 385-million-year-old amber fragments in a Middle Devonian coal bed. This finding predates previous records by 65 million years and suggests that non-seed vascular plants were capable of producing complex resin long before dinosaurs existed.
Add ScienceAlert on Google One of the fragments embedded in the surrounding coal. (Luo et al., Sci. Adv. , 2026) We tend to think of tree resin as an ancient, fragrant defense against munching insects – one that fends off pests and scabs over the wounds left by their voracious mandibles.
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