Fossils In Amber Show Us What Earth Looked Like When Dinosaurs Lived [4K] | AMBER | Spark

In forests when a tree is damaged or attacked, it defends itself by secreting a viscous, sticky substance called resin. This protects the tree from infection or infestation. Over millennia, as forests fell & began to form peat, with time, pressure & heat, their organic material turned to coal. Trapped within the coal are the remnants of tree resin which turn to copal and then fossilize into amber. Discover how things caught in the resin- remains of plants, animals like insects, spiders, frogs & lizards - help the amber to preserve creatures entombed within, giving paleontologists a window to a far-off time.
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[@6thmichcav262]

Take a drink every time Professor Stillwell says “actually.” You won’t be driving for a while.

[@baybarshan2500]

So easy when talking about it, but the shear age of these creatures frozen in time is simply mind bending. Just imagine an insect discovered in amber 140 million years old was already 100 million years old when the mating flies in amber, 40 millions year old, were discovered.

[@edmartin875]

Since Amber is found of coal, just imagine the amount of amber that has been burnt up in the past years and years of heating homes and cooking meals.

[@bryanergau6682]

I was going to say the same exact thing. Some amazing stuff has been lost forever. That's heartbreaking to me.

[@Nightdreaux22647]

Even if there are something inside those Amber that had been burnt up, they were too insignificant to be noticed. Unlike all those intact samples that you can clearly see that it was an animal

[@mpokoraa]

Obviously you're totally obnoxious when it comes to coal mine operations

[@evohori]

So? People should die to your wishes?

[@mpokoraa]

@@evohori please explain what I exactly I wished for

[@Bloomcycle]

My prized specimen of my crystal collection is a nice piece of amber with an big black ant in the center of it. I found it hunting in the forest up in the Northern Shield of Canada 🇨🇦

[@systlin2596]

What an incredible find!

[@daggermouth4695]

I call bullshit. Do you realise how far down in the earth amber that Holdd fossilised insects is ? It's 10's or even hundreds of feet. And you " found it " Lol why lie

[@systlin2596]

@@daggermouth4695 Amber erodes from underwater deposits and washes up on beaches all over the world regularly. Humans have been finding it and using it for jewelry and art for more than ten thousand years. In places like Canada and the Baltic sea walking beaches after a storm to find amber washed up by the waves is a common past time.

[@daggermouth4695]

@@systlin2596 fair enough. I apologise. But does it really have an ant in it because thst is stupid rare . Which is why I called BS

[@systlin2596]

@@daggermouth4695 It's rare but not unheard of. I have a piece a friend found along the Baltic sea that has a pine needle in it. There were lots of ants and lots of conifers producing lots of sap at the time.

[@ironempath7261]

I love this guy's enthusiasm! I enjoy seeing the smile on his face as he discusses amber. I love the scent of natural amber perfume paste (in Quebec) and amber incense. -Thank you for this video. 🏆

[@ianseow12]

Insane to think that the specimens preserved in amber are potentially 10 times as old, if not older, as the oldest known hominid fossil ever discovered, absolutely mind blowing.

[@susanharris5926]

Why mind blowing? Many species lived millions of years before the first hominid both on land and in the oceans. We (hominids) are newcomers.

[@SamtheIrishexan]

Whats really upsetting about this is i feel like mosquitos got an unfair head start and thus remain at the top of the food chain.

[@SamtheIrishexan]

@@susanharris5926 billions of years in the making, trillions if you count our star origins.

[@BlueBonnie764]

🤕💥🐝 could get messy...

[@johndavidgraham4627]

How much C14 in it?

[@chrislx2006]

Excellent video but I would have liked a text description to identify those many exquisite example specimens you show because I'm left wondering just what they are...

[@Cheka__]

I just came up with a brilliant idea.They should find a mosquito that bit a dinosaur and got frozen in amber. Then they could extract the dinosaur DNA and clone one.

[@own4801]

The DNA would have decayed and become unusable over millions of years.

[@Cheka__]

@@own4801 Here's the best part. They can fill in DNA gaps with frog DNA. Problem solved.

[@danielslubski1028]

They even made movies about it(but it doesn't work really)

[@brandoninhofer6592]

I once heard about this, I think they tried it in some movie... maybe even a franchise. But yeah they were pretty successful in bringing back dinosaurs, as they even managed to get a T-rex or two from it 🤣🤣🤣.

[@panpsychism_]

…isn’t that the plot of the first Jurassic Park…?

[@GeorgeLennon100]

Fascinating video! Amber is like a pseudo snapshot in time.

[@VicenteMReyes-vs9nh]

It's not pseudo, it's real!

[@schnooleheletteletto]

Why this overdramatic music

[@bobpettit6653]

Great video. Keep sharing. Love this stuff. 👏

[@randycaldwell8235]

Great job. Thank You for all the information 👍 keep sharing !

[@nigelmaund9057]

A fantastic video! Excellent program and very informative.

[@raedgaj3878]

Amazing work by these dedicated scientists. I'm fascinated listening to them explaining their findings & seeing their enthusiasm for this intricate subject. Great work guys.

[@richardh8082]

Fascinating thank you. Loved the background soundscape. Reminiscent of the wonderful Delia Derbyshire

[@QDStrength]

why this documentay presented like it was about serial killer

[@LEDewey_MD]

Mind blown! Incredibly well done video. Lots of science presented without "dumbing down". Wonderful ethereal soundtrack as well!

[@emmanuelstamatakis8218]

What a great great video. Very very educational so much inside these people shared everything lol thanks a lot ? I was wondering is this the same stuff that they make a violin rosin out of?

[@jimgraham6722]

Great briefing. Thankyou

[@maureensurdez7841]

Facinating work Monash!

[@GeneralLeia]

Loved the Tardis-like sound effects! Great doc.

[@missnellaful]

I wish those were completely absent, and the distracting Music! Diminishment factor, kicks the science out.

[@alleloc]

wonderful video a big thanks

[@bossaudio12]

The background music is horrible

[@WJansen]

Nice docu by the way!

[@daniellewis9616]

This is a really excellent overview. Wish you'd do another one talking about insects in amber as climate proxies. In any case, terrific; well done.

[@johnbessemer3777]

For the students looking for a catchy title for a paper on the mating flies. "Studying the hookup culture of flies of the eocene." You're welcome.

[@joshrutherford1480]

incredible stuff. ... just to think about millions and millions of years ago, let alone to see so far back is amazing

[@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236]

Except nothing was around millions of years ago and evolution never happened

[@robertdesantis6205]

@@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236 but, but, that leaves the Creation account, and that CAN'T be right! PS. Look for Ben Stein's video "X-pelled" on what happens to college professors who dare even mention the word.

[@josephstalin8439]

its speculation...based on evidence..fascinating

[@honeybear8485]

What's so cool about the this video one of the things they talk about the separation of Amber and the depressurization which creates the effects. What's even more awesome than that is the molecular structure change in the embers or any organic or synthetic material that is initiated during the the pressurization stage.. Ok like for instance gems and other material of minerals and rocks when interacted with some of those other elements during that process liquefy..

[@denispol79]

Thanks! it s very interesting!

[@lestergillis8171]

I SURE WOULD like to see what some places looked like 100 million yrs ago. 👀

[@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236]

Nothing was around 100 million years ago

[@albertvanlingen7590]

Just go to Daintree National Park in Queensland Australia and you will see.

[@robertdesantis6205]

@@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236 except the people who claim to be eye witnesses. 🙄

[@maiwritesmovies0560]

@@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236 Then how long ago did anything exist? 🤔

[@stevemchadd]

I used to live in Norfolk which is in East Anglia, England. Getting up before sunrise and walking along the beach after a storm you could see the amber glowing on the beach as the sun came up.

[@SuperJohn1019]

Props to the cameraman! Absolutely astonishing he was able to film all of this!

[@moodyrick8503]

It would be much better if the insects in the amber photo's came with names & dates attached. The more details, the better, but very interesting nonetheless.

[@susanfarley1332]

omg, for a second you meant that the insects etc in the amber should labelled inside the amber but suddenly realized you were telling the maker of the video to be kind enough to put information on the photos of the amber inclusions. I also thought the video would be a lot better if we could identify what we were looking at. It all looked like sooty dirt to me. Other than a few obvious things anyone could see, but it would be nice to know what they are called, or at least what we should looking for. Which is a shame. I have seen some amazing photos of stuff in amber. I wish you had included them. The "you" I'm referring to is the maker of the video in the last past of my comment.

[@tomwilliam5118]

Nova had a really good show about that today Wednesday 11th of May

[@devanairemccallister4194]

I have a piece of Amber roughly the size of a baseball, which has 3 bugs you can see distinctively. A mosquito, a beetle of some kind and huge ant!

[@droogsurgeon1440]

This is so cool!!! Love it

[@songofseikilos8659]

amazing its real time travel.

[@karenfyhr2363]

Fascinating

[@laniedelacruz4993]

Its amazing to know🙀such things existed before🙌🤷🏼‍♀️anyway there’s more to study and learn🌸💛that’s life. Kudos🥰

[@screwthecabal6453]

There are easier ways to tell if it's fake or not. Amber floats in salt water, plastic does not. Real amber smells like pine when poked with a red hot needle, fakes smell like plastic. The feel of it also is a giveaway.

[@williammoore841]

So those big garbage islands floating in the oceans with tons and tons of plastic floating in salt water proves you correct Plastic doesn't float in salt water

[@drhyshek]

Cool and trippy music, lol.

[@lestergillis8171]

"Half a fly"? Was it... BRUNDLE FLY ? ? ?

[@yogidemis8513]

Get yourself a few 24 packs of your favorite brew and everytime someone says, "Amber" take a drink. See if you can make it to the of the show!

[@TheRaferaf]

My Grandpa used to take me amber picking by the Baltic Sea but we were looking for clear amber for jewelry. Any bugs or dirt in it we'd throw away.

[@BlueBonnie764]

One mans'trash, is anothers'treasure.🖖

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

I hope you never mistook some white phosphorus for amber. It can also be found in the sea due to WW2.

[@beavis6363]

Soundtrack, "March of the Drams" by Cat in the Steinway. Cool information.

[@v-gc7257]

Very helpful. Would be doing a project about fossils

[@moodyrick8503]

The process of fossilization is fairly well understood,, as examples of every step of the process have been found in nature. _Fascinating stuff, indeed._

[@Ssspaceform]

Lovely, but please turn down the “epic” soundtrack

[@waynester71]

I was about to make the same comment.. Interesting documentaries always seem to be drowned with over the top background music.. Stop.

[@missnellaful]

YES STOP THE SOUNDS AND MUSIC. They make me and my insects, birds and small mammals very queazy! They can’t teach us!

[@Amberscape]

Briliant video! Australian amber - wow! havent heard of australian amber before, gotta somehow get my hands on it

[@user-mh6hd7yl4o]

In shape of a huge gem

[@Svensk7119]

I remember Eons talking about an ant found like this with a parasite on its butt.

[@jerlee620]

Imagine being able to create a dinosaur from a 100 million year old mosquito.

[@jerlee620]

@@MidwestFarmToys lmao

[@danm7298]

Its amazing to me that u can rub amber and it smells like tree sap even tho its millions of years old

[@paparoysworkshop]

Makes you wonder just how many fine specimens were not found and then burned up in some coal furnace. Kind of sad, but what can you do.

[@albertvanlingen7590]

The only reason for the tropical climate covering most of land then was because there was no antarctic circumpolar current. Ocean heat was spread more evenly and no arctic dipole events could exist.

[@Billybobjohngeorgejr]

Hey mom, I found some amber with a mosquito in it. It's Millions of years old. My mom as she slaps her arm and kills a modern day mosquito, "Well I guess some creatures never evolve" Wait, What?

[@robertdesantis6205]

She should slap you as well for believing it! 🤪

[@bryanergau6682]

Shes right. Mosquitos didn't. Crocodiles didn't. Crocs haven't changed in like 350 million years

[@Bobcatspiritdude]

I cannot find much info about humans being trapped in Amber as well. They do portray this in the TV show "Fringe " . There's lots of truth in that show . It'll blow your mind

[@Nightdreaux22647]

What happens if Ancient humans and mummy specialist from Ancient Egypt or Ancient China knew that you can preserve body in Amber so perfectly 100% intact???? Could you imagine how amazing it would be to see the ""Pharaoh"" in their original appearances???

[@pegasusgenesis360]

Ironically, they did use resin- but on the wrappings. But would have been wild if they just dunked the whole pharoah in resin, let it dry and then thousands of years later, we would be looking at a pharoah that was barely decomposed!

[@Nightdreaux22647]

@@pegasusgenesis360 well I can understand why Ancient Egyptians did not have knowledge that resin in a big amount can preserve dead body in a very perfect state. Because it is very hard to find the examples. Even now people had to dig and hope they will be lucky enough to find one intact example of dead animals or insects covered with hardened resin. If only the Ancient Egyptian have one example, they could be doing wonderful things with the resin.

[@honjon666]

What the hell is background music? Like the halo ost or something? Lol

[@WJansen]

The background music whaha.

[@homuraakemi493]

Thank u tree bros

[@xeokym223]

There's some really cool music in this. I could have sworn the guy was going to call them "fuck flies." 😄

[@jamiboothe]

so, if fly legs are most common, the rest of the bug got away.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

Or was more than likely eaten. Fly a-la Amber, mm-mm!

[@vissitorsteve]

I wonder if instead of cryogenic storage, they begin putting dead people in amber.

[@gregufor9484]

they are the pride of Earth vis-a-vis of the Universe as a Planet

[@daniellewis9616]

He notes that amber floats, as a test of its genuineness -- this isn't always true; some amber sinks, which is how it's ended up on seafloors along coasts.

[@wrightgregson9761]

the dammed music is so intrusic!!!1

[@user-mh6hd7yl4o]

Mines light yellow to dark brown but like the a vivid yellow diamond HQ

[@ezekielmcville5101]

To think ... that those bugs may have actually crawled on a dinosaur 🦕

[@ImSkittzle]

Crazy how accurate Jurassic park was

[@yohanathandowns9057]

Micheal Creighton, the Auther of the book Jurassic Park is very well researched. You can tell from reading his book, a lot of it is very technical rambling.

[@tonyr6365]

How do you figure out how old the amber is? I understand that you could take a bunch of stuff that died around the same time and say that they probably lived around the same time but I don't understand how you find out how old the whole group was.

[@robertdesantis6205]

Circular reasoning

[@michealmcneal2259]

If they are getting it from a coal band then its probably dated to the coal band the amber was found in.

[@user-dt3rj8qm3k]

Carbon dating

[@rayw3294]

Real science.

[@dcolb121]

Great. Another documentary with dramatic mood music. Just what it needs for bugs and birds and small reptiles preserved in amber.

[@missnellaful]

…uuugghhh the music is junk.

[@gemhunterphilippines-vo9sh]

i have blue Amber with termite fossil pound here in Philippines

[@user-mh6hd7yl4o]

I have a piece of amber that weighs about 50 pounds it has bubbles trapped inside it

[@russellst.martin4255]

37:30 what a way to go

[@nosillalaluna7078]

KABOOM ! that was my mind ...

[@wuzzer7286]

Hi guys-ladys, spot on programme, just a quick question, has any person, drilled in to a fossil to test DNA or look at( i dont quite know which part) to see the ifs, buts and hows, just to see and understand the whats, where and whens

[@own4801]

DNA would be too decayed to identify after millions of years.

[@allanahbanana3976]

Cool

[@MAGaBAMA_84]

We saw this in Jarassic Park

[@markusbaker1161]

😂 difference is, you cannot get DNA from these samples.

[@MeAndDad_1723]

My friend in the Dominican 🇩🇴 Republic has bags 🎒 of amber. Blue amber too.

[@pedersonjason5256]

Call it "Getting down, down under."

[@parkermegan91]

Soooo annoying when there is constant background music while people are talking

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Instead of polishing off the Amber (a substrate, not color) to find Bio Inclusions, could they do a Micro Photogrammetric X Ray? A detailed 3D interior map of the Amber? - Ok, never mind 😄.

[@nlhernandez39]

Blue amber? From what plant?

[@own4801]

Some amber is blue on earth.

[@williamchampagne1028]

the music is too loud and dramatic i try to lisint what are they saying : (

[@Jay-sb6qe]

call it endurance

[@edwinsalau150]

Such a great presentation! Thank you. Who would have known two flys would be the beginnings of the Kama Sutra? Why do I have to continuously go back to edit my posts? It seems the words and spelling change for no reason at all. Why is that? 👍🇺🇸

[@jamesjangmaw6671]

It's sad that Burmese junta ruined everything here. That region where you can find amber is facing intense fire fight recently.

[@erichtomanek4739]

I never knew until now that Victoria, Australia (Anglesey) has amber in some of its coal deposits. And I live in Melbourne! I wonder if there is amber in other coal seams elsewhere in Australia? As for the two flies, they're well and truly rooted!

[@davidevans3227]

you mean they are not talking about Welsh coal!? tut.. awh.. 🙂 x

[@Rusty_Gold85]

Australia millions of years ago when the land was in a different location ( ie Continental Drift) had a large inland ocean which is why we have so much coal and iron. That would lead to finding some amber. There are Marine reptiles in Opal that have been found

[@judyjackson2260]

It seems like rats would be preserved because they are so hard to kill off.

[@peterolbrisch1653]

Amber, a sticky gelatinous substance that can harden into a stone like substance, also a synonym for liar.

[@jamesanonymous2343]

THIS IS NOT READY FOR "PRIME TIME"

[@PopsMdub]

Neat stuff, but the music in this video is very distracting. Music should be toned down, especially when people are talking.

[@matthewdobbie6740]

66 million years ago you mean

[@freedom661100]

music??????????

[@dontcrymasha]

I thought insects were enormous Millions of years ago. How come only those tiny buggers got stuck and never ever a piece of a gigantic antenna for example? That would really be awesome!

[@ratreptile]

Insects were only big until birds came along and made being big bad for survival, oxygen levels were also quite lower during the dinosaur period compared to the carboniferous when large insects roamed.

[@own4801]

That was before the dinosaurs during the late Carboniferous period when extremely high oxygen levels allowed insects to reach abnormally large sizes.

[@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236]

@@own4801 there’s no such thing as a Carboniferous period, Jurassic period, Triassic, Permian etc. it’s all part of the stupid geologic column that doesn’t exist anywhere except in the imagination.

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol236 Get a load of this guy 🤣

[@daveevans9809]

I’ll be glad when this phase passes where every damn video seems to have exactly the same film trailer type of crap music in the background.

[@MH-Tesla]

It's been that way since the 1950s. Try watching old documentaries. It's comical.

[@lestergillis8171]

Was it... "Mr. Lizzard" ?

[@fhiNkme]

What if human remains are preserve using amber

[@RonnyCoalman]

wHY IS THERE SO MUCH SCARY MUSIC IN THIS DOCUMENTARY !!!