The Most Amazing Discoveries Found in Amber

Looking at things trapped in Amber is like a window into the past-amber can preserve organisms whole, and essentially freeze them in time! The specimens scientists have found in amber range from amazing to downright bizarre. Join Hank Green for a new episode of SciShow where we'll show you the 6 coolest things so far found in amber!
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[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

One time I found an Aerodactyl in some Old Amber.

[@supahshooter]

shiny? ability? ivs? hmu if you wanna trade

[@linleybaruch8368]

susi wachu got, I got a lvl 69 Gardevoir shiny, hmu

[@thewindofsuicune]

Black Jesus ill trade you an aerodactyl for your gardevoir

[@jakeeames725]

Sure it wasn’t a pteranodon?

[@marcopohl4875]

that was a BIG ASS amber

[@Mini_Squatch]

I mean, amber's physical properties in and of itself are cool as hell. Im also fond of the fact that bubbles found in amber can give us information about the atmospheric makeup of millions of years ago :D

[@MrAlwaysRight]

My farts bubble in the bathtub, is that kinda the same thing?

[@Mrdanieljerez]

@@MrAlwaysRight lmaoo wtf

[@rickbailey7450]

How do they know the age of the Amber?

[@Skyldyel]

@@rickbailey7450 It is organic, so C-14 could be one way. It gets imprecise over time. But still give a rough starting point for age estimation. Edit: Just checked, C-14 goes to max 60k Years. So probably not.

[@rickbailey7450]

@@Skyldyel Yeah, that's what I thought. Hmmm. . . I've always had trouble with the millions of years idea.

[@thecrazycapn]

"Roridulid" sounds like Scooby-Doo is trying to say something.

[@MagpieRat]

Came here to say the same. Bravo, friend.

[@mtlicq]

ee-yyyeee-hoohooh hahhhhh!

[@dalubhasar]

Yeah!!!

[@1959Edsel]

Ruh roh, Raggy!

[@DrPhil-qj8gv]

400th like

[@MatthewStinar]

Hank: Speaking of bloodsuckers… 🧛‍♂️ Me: That's an interesting sponsor segue. I wonder where he's going with this. 🤔

[@LetsTalkAboutPrepping]

Deet!

[@davidsan9654]

Damn SkillShare always trying to suck my blood

[@denisfilming]

"You hold them down Robin while I release my Bat-Malaria at them"

[@boroparkerputz]

What a hidden gem of a comment! 😂

[@ThatGamePerson]

Caustic cosplaying as BatMan

[@maestromouse2578]

I mean, what could go wrong, right?

[@woodfur00]

I _think_ biological warfare is against Batman's code of ethics. At least, I hope so.

[@bonesstones6584]

BAM! Right in the face!

[@jhonnybfmv]

can we get an episode on how they study amber specimens? like how do you analyse every little spec of the amber learning even about the micro biome inside of them without destroying the sample

[@fransiscozip1459]

Lol first test ..swat it with a rock hammer..they drill it .in a vaccume..collecting the dust..they distroy it..its what they do..spectrail analyses.step one burn it .in front of a special camera..zap it with a lazer..plasma...they try not to distroy data..its also more expensive to do non distructive testing...not impossible.just alot of hassels...um both halfs of a 100 carat diamond are just as intresting ..to a geologist...and you get to see the guts..the heart...so the first order of distruction is in fact essential..its not worth anything untill i figure out what it is ....carnage is progress.

[@dark12ain]

They may use carbon dating

[@pepesylvia848]

You can probably also just polish it so the surface becomes clear. Then u can eyeball it with a microscope.

[@magenlin]

@@fransiscozip1459 how did they dig in to the throat of a flea from millions of years ago without destroying it in the process of getting it out of the Amber

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

Tiny Tools

[@gamingwithlacks]

The thing that always surprised me about amber is how light it is! It weighs next to nothing compared to a similar sized gemstone.

[@icarusbinns3156]

Can we hear about copal? Because there’s this lady that sells ‘amber’ jewelry at art shows. But it’s positively PACKED with bugs, feels sticky and when tapped, sounds like plastic. The geologist in my brain keeps screaming that it’s copal and needs another million years to be true amber. I’d love to see an episode about amber vs copal. Please?

[@ogchirag]

It's probably someone dying the resin and filling it with insects

[@icarusbinns3156]

@@ogchirag but there’s also copal, which is naturally formed

[@tahroo4262]

In order to trap things in Amber, we need trees to make sap... so go donate to Team Trees and plant some more trees!

[@eagle3676]

Awesome

[@24emerald]

Global warming and a RETURN to higher levels of carbon in the atmosphere will do more for trees and plants than 'team trees' could ever hope for. Let's make the earth warm again.

[@emeraldtea_____]

Yessss we need the aliens to know what the heck happened to us when we’re extinct

[@eagle3676]

@@24emerald no it won't because a lot of disasters will follow like ice melting, droughts, inconsistent weather patterns and all sorts of crazy shenanigans

[@aaa-vx8ke]

Eagle 367 their gonna wonder why the earth is extremely hot even though it’s in the habital zone

[@Snapplemonkey]

The reason we can't find good DNA in amber is because DNA half-life is about 10000 years if it's perfectly preserved/frozen. So getting dinosaur DNA is literally impossible, however we could find some cool pre-historic animals and resurrect them.

[@JDStone-jg8cg]

Except in 2020 and in 2021 they found some fossils with bits of DNA in some rock's that are supposed to be 70 to 125 Million years old . . .

[@JDStone-jg8cg]

@Cristofer Andrade Oh yea, we probably won't ever get Jurassic Park and that's probably a good thing lol I mean there are literally 6 different movies that explain why this would be a BAD idea lol No the point of my post was more along the lines of pointing out the inaccuracies of carbon dating and other forms of identifying how old something is.

[@ringofasho7721]

I hope they just keep it on ice. Some tech in the future may offer hope

[@1000OtherFoxes]

it would be very possible in a near future to extract some proteins and therefore fragments of DNA

[@Mud-N-Ice]

Dr Mary Schweitzer discovers T-rex blood cells They ruined her for speaking truth

[@gnomebanta2297]

Makes sense that a tree’s immune system would want to have a sticky bandaid that completely stops organic processes and eliminates the possibility of infection. Pretty cool adaptation

[@corwin.macleod]

In one of the videos on amber trapped insects some youtuber claimed that there is actually no biological material left inside because it should have decomposed for the time being. As we can see from this video, that's not true. So maybe Jurassic Park explanation as to how they got dinosaurs DNA isn't that misguided.

[@synonymous1079]

"Speaking of blood suckers..." Lawyers? Oh, bat flies...

[@jklalskjdjhg7227]

William Burns make sure your partner doesn’t get it

[@synonymous1079]

@William Burns lol brilliant reply xD

[@LetsTalkAboutPrepping]

Politics Poli:many Tics: parasites

[@katyungodly]

LockPickingLawyer will break into your home

[@CyberSway]

@@LetsTalkAboutPrepping Wow lol, pretty sure I read that joke on the old internet like 15 years ago. Nice.

[@JalenZero]

Bat malaria; the kind of malaria you usually find in a utility belt!

[@dennisvance4004]

Danny James can you think of a better Bat Shark Repellent?

[@liquidminds]

Bat malaria is serious. It kills your parents and forces you to fight crime in your own city, wearing a dark suit... It can end deadly if you're not a billionaire who can afford appropriate gear.

[@ZhuangJN-TislePur]

@@liquidminds ehem my friend got freaking dengue and was absent for 1 week or more in school

[@laurieb3703]

@@ZhuangJN-TislePur wooosh

[@jacobthompson1682]

Never thought about it but that last bird makes sense we think of birds evolving a beak into new tools but that's from learning about Galapagos finches. Other birds may have other avenues more available. Thanks for the new outlook on how evolution takes place.

[@yazunakarmi3315]

"Amber, really catches a moment in time." that right there is such a great statement

[@mr.personhumanson6871]

That bird died like how I want to die, giving someone the finger

[@ColdHawk]

Went down letting the world know exactly what it thought of its fate.

[@wellurban]

Mr. Person Humanson Or, shall we say, flipping the bird.

[@fionapaterson-wiebe3108]

Mr. Person Humanson there’s always one 🙄

[@adammoore7059]

Your butt stinks

[@jr2904]

@@fionapaterson-wiebe3108 just like there's always someone like you not having any sense of humor 😂

[@Master_Therion]

11:00 Would that bird give you the middle finger... or would that middle finger give you the bird?

[@stanervin6108]

TOUCHÉ. 🤺

[@inkdreams5113]

..!. […]?

[@veralenora4033]

He's describing evolution wrong, as almost everyone does. Mutations are random. The fact that this long toe might have helped the bird survive is not "why" it developed. There is no "why". If random mutations are helpful, they may be passed to the next generation if the survival rate goes up. Or, if they're not UNhelpful (note double negative) they still might be passed. Retired librarian, MI, USA

[@Master_Therion]

@@veralenora4033 I'm a biologist, not retired, SLC, UT and I wholeheartedly agree with your explanation. ^_^

[@23ADJ93]

93s

[@anarchyantz1564]

We need a follow up one of this for more cool items in amber as the squashed remains of a small bird that lived 99 million years ago have been found encased in a cloudy slab of amber from Myanmar’s Hukawng Valley.

[@redcoraldragon2073]

Or the ammonite that was found in a piece of amber, also from Myanmar.

[@pattheplanter]

@@redcoraldragon2073 For those who want to see a picture of the ammonite: news.iu.edu/stories/2019/06/iub/05-ammonite-fossil-amber-ancient-sea-life-research.html Unfortunately it had been dead for some time before being preserved so we don't see the face of an ammonite.

[@RetroMediaInc]

Me, watching the SciShow intro: please be hank please be hank please be ha- Hank: AMBER Me: oh God YES

[@augwa5645]

IKR!! i barley watch episodes with anyone else...

[@mohit5496]

@@augwa5645 right , but once the guy from PBS eons said sorry for not being Hank. He is cool too

[@augwa5645]

@@mohit5496 lmao i remembee that i felt so bad

[@fossilfighters101]

:(((( sci show content is always good i love hank but i disagree with that sentiment

[@jack-gf6jw]

Not even hank.. just literally anyone but septum piercing!

[@GapWim]

9:53 “ _There are no salamanders in the Caribbean today. And that made researches wonder […] where they went_ “ Extinct, that’s where they went.

[@simplynikki4801]

That’s not true. I live in Jamaica 🇯🇲 they are rare but we still see them

[@johnchandler1687]

They all got stuck in amber trying to rescue their friend.

[@arthas640]

Nah they just swam to the mainland so they could eat the crickets in our backyards

[@pepesylvia848]

Extinct doesn't answer questionnnnn

[@GapWim]

@@pepesylvia848 | I know, it was a tongue in cheek answerrrrrr 😉

[@dennisvance4004]

That whole dinosaur-DNA-from-mosquitoes-trapped-in-amber thing got out of hand.

[@so9175]

I used to have a piece of amber with grass in it, which is kinda cool lol

[@so9175]

@Michael Horton thanks! I forgot about that. :)

[@dosesandmimoses]

Thank you- anthropologists, entomologists, biologists, researchers, epidemiologists, geologists, climatologists, et al.. and the Green brother staff! Gratitude

[@GingerFTW00]

It makes me happy seeing my university making some of these amazing discoveries

[@bluestormpony]

The dinosaur tail in amber is my favorite. So cool

[@MatthewStinar]

Cue Kermit the Frog singing, 🎶 "He's a Caribbean amphibian!"🎶 🎤🐸 🎸

[@windhelmguard5295]

alright i'm going to correct you right here. saying that kalleningrad represents weather in russia, is like saying that alaska accurately represents weather in the US.

[@nate7790]

That's a very good description.

[@k213389]

My name is Amber. Once one kid figured out what my name meant, my nickname among my classmates in elementary school was, truly, "Petrified Tree Sap." Needless to say I have never really recovered. I did not know about all these different things preserved in amber! Fascinating.

[@47f0]

You should have used your Greek name, Elektron. All the kids would have thought you were a superhero.

[@spitalhelles3380]

You can find so much stuff in amber, I bet the amber room is somewhere in there too

[@nobodysbaby5048]

Read up on that. Best guess is the disassembled amber room went up in flames when the castle it was supposedly stored in was bombed at the end of WWII.

[@yoblazes]

More amber discovery episodes!!

[@92RKID]

Agree! :D

[@Mh187pj]

Plague infested rat blood.... That straight up stopped me in mid stride. Lol

[@masterofpuppets5072]

What that didn't make any sense what you just said

[@tay012]

BREAKING NEWS: Hank Green has revealed in the SciShow Tangents podcast on Fossils that he is an avid amber enthusiast! SciShow tangents is amazing!

[@thegreatders344]

This makes you wonder what's still out there, and what we will never find...

[@jonedwards5953]

Special secret, we've found a cretaceous dinosaur wing in amber!

[@AngellusBlack]

Yeah, kinda disappointed they didn't mention it.

[@richardbidinger2577]

I was expecting that one, but still, all of them were interesting. Too bad they passed on it.

[@jlw35cudvm]

What are they seasoned with and is there a dipping sauce? I love dinosaur wings!

[@dennisvance4004]

Jon Edwards mmm, there’s nothing like Buffalo Dinosaur Wings.

[@sdfkjgh]

Jason Wilson: The amber IS the dipping sauce! Or rather, it WAS, before it fossilized. This is why you NEVER leave your dipping sauces out in the elements, no matter what that pimply-faced Krustyburger manager said.

[@sandman0123]

Aah, the infamous AMBER trap... Just ask Johnny Depp!! 😂

[@fandroid6491]

"I wish my amber resin could speak" The amber: JohNnY DePp iS BaD

[@amzilla]

I like to watch this video when I feel bad about myself. It always picks me up lmao

[@marvinmerten7112]

While its technically correct to call Kaliningrad russia it is a russian exclave in northern poland. I as a european I know that but I don't think alot of americans do. It is not that strange that the climate of the southern baltic was warmer 35 million years ago. If you look just a bit southwest to germany and the Messel pit fossils (about as close to kaliningrad as mainland russia) you find that about 47 million years ago it was a lush subtropical climate with early mammals and crocodiles. It would be intresting to hear about more things they have found along the southern baltic sense it has among the largest amber deposits in the world. Russia is a big place so finding somthing "in Russia" could mean everything from the black sea to notheast siberia on the us border, geography is very important when talking about fossils! Thanks for trying to educate the world!

[@kidstv1011]

Thanks for that, while I knew kalinnangrad was konigsburg at one point, having heard russia I just forgot. Lol thanks man!

[@kidstv1011]

@Jake Sangria I was pointing out how easy it is to forget common knowledge, and expressing gratitude dipshit.

[@marvinmerten7112]

@Jake Sangria Well if I was making a video about finding fossils in Anchorage and I just said it was in America without showing where on a map. People (outside us) would be totally unaware of what climate or geology, etc. Quite important stuff when talking about fossils. Now if I were some random dude saying Anchorage is in America that wouldn't be much of a problem, but then again this is an EDUCATIONAL VIDEO and I would totally expect some angry Alaskan in the comments. It sounds like you think this is about some European pride when it is really about education. I know most people would just hear ''Kaliningrad in Russia'' and think there isn't more to it, a couple might google it but far more people will go to the comments and then BOOM EDUCATION. I would expect and hope that people will keep correcting mistakes like this sense I want to become more educated when watching an educational video. And about the foot in my mouth, how about I put it it yours!

[@marvinmerten7112]

@@kidstv1011You're welcome, sorry it took a month. It's kinda crazy to think it was In German control from 1255 - 1945 and only 4-5 years later there were almost no Germans left. Now it's military base, the size of a country.

[@marvinmerten7112]

@Jake Sangria In the video they say Kaliningrad and then refer to the cold climate in Russia and that's two totally different climates, just like Alaska and the contiguous US. Nobody is going to fly to Kaliningrad and I think if you pay money for a ticket, you'd want to know where you are going to. But I don't think everybody in the world knows the difference between Alaska and Florida, and I don't think they would look it up and I wouldn't expect them to either. I didn't want people to assume Kaliningrad was just some town in Siberia while that's exactly what it sounds like in the video and soooo far from the truth. Imagine that you are from (random country) the only thing you know about US is Hamburgers, apple pie, guns, the only states you know are California, Texas and Florida. Somebody says ''Oil drilling is big in Alaska, its warm in the US'', you are probably thinking about an oilfield in a desert. Even though the statement is true (oil drilling is big in Alaska and it is relativity warm in the US) Your image of the US and Alaska would be very wrong. Just trying to help.

[@tristanbaravraham6349]

That was genuinely fascinating. Thank you all.

[@knightsofpie]

My main question is, how do the scientists know that that bird did not just have a birth defect or something.

[@egregius9314]

That would be a weird and highly specific defect. How many people do you know with one finger 40% longer than the rest?

[@tatianaesquerra7271]

I think it's a good question, and although not probable, still possible.

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

Doesn't mean it wasn't a birth defect. Like how can they know 100 percent for sure

[@feiradragon7915]

I wonder the same thing. Especially since there's some weird af defects in modern animals. Like, if someone 100 million years from now found a deer skull and in life, that deer had the skull defect that makes its horns fuse, those people might think the 'unicorn' was a separate species when it wasn't.

[@normalpeopleboreme]

@@egregius9314 Less weird than having two heads, or the body attacking itself, or missing limbs, ect.

[@Schattennutzerin]

If there's only this one evidence for the bird with one long toe - how do researchers know it was a whole species and not one individual irregular toe in a species we already know?

[@LaGuerre19]

At 12:20, there's a very lonely, but very not-shy man in a yellow shirt "getting to know" that triceratops. You're welcome.

[@BlackWolf42-]

12:20 That inset picture made me laugh; what's that guy doing to that triceratops?

[@dianedenham5259]

😂 I'd have never noticed without someone mentioning.

[@christopherpenascosas7392]

REPRUDUCING SAVE DINOS FROM EXTINCTION

[@christopherpenascosas7392]

@@BlackWolf42- HMMM *Read more*

[@mikshin9825]

You don't want to know...

[@MindHunger]

I would like to see a video on how scientists analyzed these things found in amber.

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@LaGuerre19]

My boi Dennis Nedry is watching this video with rapt fascination.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Also, amber is special because it's the color of your energy. Woah.

[@kickinrocks6055]

Discovered 311 million years ago.

[@AbandonedVoid]

Yeah, it's one of the few ways we can find shades of gold displayed naturally

[@Katepuzzilein]

Even better: the greek name for amber (elektron) is where our word for electricity comes from

[@kickinrocks6055]

@@Katepuzzilein check out the big brain on Kate!

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@Katepuzzilein TIL

[@almightyphinn]

Tell me why I watch this channel at 12-2 am instead of during the day

[@dutchphysicist]

great episode, thanxx!!

[@zipzeolocke2]

So hypothetically could you preserve someone alive in Amber for years? Considering the mosquitoes died in the tree sap, I'm guessing surviving is out of the question

[@Lindsey578]

I’m having my body preserved in amber sorry about the expense to my family but it sounds cool And I’m a selfish jerk

[@sageoblouk6782]

(Scishow notification) Me: I'm getting tired of all these amber alerts.

[@mtrc1970]

This guy is AWSOME , I love his enthusiasm..............

[@arielsalinger-kraft6197]

Wait, will you do another video on stuff found in amber? I think Hank would be absurdly happy to learn that a DINOSAUR TAIL was found in amber! (Yes, including feathers!)

[@frozenhorse8695]

I wonder if someone ever gonna find an archaeologist in amber.

[@professormemebrain1352]

Mind sharing what that profile pics from?

[@frozenhorse8695]

@@professormemebrain1352 Hero 108

[@johnchandler1687]

No one will bother to look.

[@demariejones3438]

The bird with the long to was the originator of “the bird!” Lol

[@sonyaweinreis3658]

Thanks for teaching me something new ☺️

[@jeanneferguson7124]

These are so very exciting and illuminate how knowledge can be gained in the most unexpected ways.

[@karendixon2250]

For some reason, I want to go put some of my hair in some tree resin so some future intelligent life can discover it and throw a wrench into what they thought humans were like.

[@THeDoMeTB]

My guess to number 6 is a small velociraptor like bird. maybe hunting small rodents and stuff? the long toe could do similiar things to what the velociraptor claws do

[@chrisboucher1987]

Love this. Thanks Amber!!

[@Max-Blast_Media]

When I die, bury me in tree resin so the octopuses can study me in millions of years.

[@YahshuaLovesMe]

I love your Zeal for the scientific stuff you talk about, making it all a lot more interesting!

[@justinodom9155]

Couldn’t a log with a salamander stuck in tree resin have floated over to the island and they never have inhabited the island at all?

[@RedSunT]

It might be possible to also determine if the amber was from a native tree, narrowing down the area. Additional findings of more amber by the same plants could be another clue.

[@pepinillorick5741]

That sound fairly improbable, but may be.

[@garymingy8671]

I believe pollen places stuff in context pretty good , they are very precise , before they publish an opinion , those ocean currents are semi perminent , also , and time is vast , many logs did many strange things , yet we mostly dig up average things , common things , normal things , then you reinspect the evidence's ...

[@pepesylvia848]

Very unlikely that it be fossilized and make it over to be discovered in a place it didn't live. For something to be fossilized and be discovered, there has to be many examples. Most will never be found.

[@michaeldean4712]

Very cool. I just visited the Kuji Amber Museum in northern Japan yesterday. Amazing stuff.

[@TheGossipGays]

Great episode!

[@rafterrafter1227]

2:3 Pameridea roridulae: I will give you meat in exchange for caca..... Capsid bug:You're shitting me; Right?

[@ganderstein3426]

Would an alert for this video be considered an "Amber Alert?"

[@TheAtomaton]

@surfitlive You my friend, deserve a medal.

[@cindykq8086]

Boodoop-PAH

[@ruperterskin2117]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@divinityinspectionservicel7809]

great video, thanks

[@HumanScourgeYT]

"Woa! Amber is the color of the substance that traps tiny animals."

[@Metaphix]

when i die i want to be put into tree resin lol so i can freak whatevers here in 100 million years the fugg out.

[@bushbeatinbeaver2032]

You would make a nice walking stick handle for a giant alien.

[@fossilfighters101]

@@bushbeatinbeaver2032 that would be LIT

[@arthas640]

Reminds me of a super corny but really good saturday morning cartoon: Sherlock Holmes In the 22nd Century. He gets preserved in amber or honey (I forget which) and when his body gets rediscovered he's brought back and of course it's Inspector Lestrad's great-great-great-great-great-great-great grand daughter who finds him, and they give him a robot Watson.

[@tarnishedknight730]

After seeing the Elektironis chenguangi @11:03, I now understand where the term "flipping them the bird" came from.

[@LEDewey_MD]

Really cool paleontology info!

[@rudyblock619]

I just found out that hank is valued at 17 million US dollars

[@eastcoastartist]

Of course they found a flee: those things are impossible to get rid of!!!!

[@bcubed72]

Thanks for the alert, regarding amber.

[@jotarokujo1317]

I never thought I would watch this guy outside of school

[@AlBert-tv9ut]

A " carnivorous" plant but it eats poo. Like manure? Like cow manure? The stuff we fertilize plants with? Whoah.

[@sharifaa.8887]

But they catch live prey. So, not quite like farmed plants.

[@AlBert-tv9ut]

Good point. Plus they don't absorb it through the roots, very neet. I'm just trying to be funny saying eating poop doesn't make you a carnivore.

[@sharifaa.8887]

@@AlBert-tv9ut You're right. There's another word for that, I think... checking google....coprophagy. hmm... that was not the word I was thinking of. 🤔

[@cliffordlevy3918]

In high school I was found inside Amber by her dad.

[@nuckenfuts7750]

Bada boom bada bing.

[@pinballrobbie]

were you stuck?

[@Nancytoday]

You know, 11 years ago I heard about you and your brother talking once a day on video for a year. Vlog brothers 2.0 I think. Anyway, I watched you, then started doing my own channel. Twas long ago. Thanks for the inspiration! And know I know what amber is.

[@kaitlynoddie9649]

one of the authors of the feathers study was the lecturer for my intro to paleo class so that’s pretty neat

[@tonykarrar7150]

When you realize your species has been smoking excreted plant glue to get high for thousands of years

[@tonydolvin6048]

Encased in amber... that's how I want to go!

[@terriouellete1053]

This was really fascinating. Can you please do more on Yersinia Pestis.

[@seansullivan7928]

Ancient people used resin, honey, and plant oils for antiseptic properties that could cause infections. People knew what to do before antibiotics

[@harrietharlow9929]

Those are really cool finds, especially the carnivorous and protofeathers,. Aber is a treasure in more ways than one.

[@daisydemelker6360]

They've found so many things in Amber, eventually it was like throwing a sausage down a tunnel.

[@pepesylvia848]

Still fun

[@mashrien]

Heard him say "trichomes"; Immediately paused and scrolled down to the comments looking for the obligatory weeder "omfg thats some dope herb homes" and was gleefully relieved at the lack of comments.

[@1voluntaryist]

One of the best SciShow videos yet!

[@1voluntaryist]

Too bad no really big trees exist to secrete gallons that could envelope a human for the enlightenment of the species that come along after we go extinct.

[@smallpred8123]

i wonder if we've ever found seeds in amber that could be viable?

[@n.g5855]

Unfortunately, the seeds would be dried out and even with new water, they'd be functionally useless/still wouldn't grow because they are dead.

[@lordelliott42]

@@n.g5855 If the seed has the right kind of shell, it might not be dried out. It's not impossible that a _very_ old seed would still grow, just _very_ unlikely. I remember hearing about a plant with seeds that sprout 100 years later.

[@pattifeit4354]

Amber is generally around 100 million years old, and Hank just said it dries out the things it encases. I'm no plant expert, but it seems unlikely to me that a seed could still be viable after all that. DNA doesn't last that long.

[@lordelliott42]

@@pattifeit4354 Amber isn't always that old, just the kind that gets talked about the most. I wasn't talking about amber 100 million years old. However, don't put it past nature to somehow preserve DNA so long. Also, don't just take Hank at his word. He wouldn't want you to.

[@pattifeit4354]

@lordelliott42 So how old was the amber you were talking about? 😉 If it's amber, it's still millions of years old. Now I hear they're getting good DNA out of animals found in the permafrost of the northern regions; but even those specimens are only thousands of years old, not millions. And not 100. Having said that, I rather like the thought that "life ... finds a way". And BTW, I didn't just take Hank's word, I merely referenced him. The dessicating effects of amber on things encased in it are pretty well documented.

[@codylawson1257]

With the long toe on the bird, isn't it just possible that it was just a natural deformity? I see birds with feet problems relatively often.

[@LeatherNeck1833]

How many of those deformities have you ever seen get stuck in tree resin?

[@codylawson1257]

@@LeatherNeck1833 not often but it doesn't mean it's impossible. Just sharing an idea

[@LeatherNeck1833]

@@codylawson1257 You're right, it's not impossible. We'll just say it has an exuberant chance at improbability.

[@codylawson1257]

@@LeatherNeck1833 I think you are underestimating the frequency of deformities. It happens all the time, do some bird watching and you'll see messed up feet

[@LeatherNeck1833]

@@codylawson1257 Oh, I am not disputing that fact; I believe you there. What I'm talking about is the odds. See, resin that fossilizes into Amber isn't produced by every tree. Only certain Conifers produce the right type of resin. Granted, Conifers were the most plentiful sap producing trees during the Cretaceous, but then everything has to go right for it to survive 60 million years. The odds of a special one-of-a-kind foot getting stuck in just the right goo and then surviving the elements and such for millions of years is....Exponentially Improbable. If there were a million of these birds with this foot the odds of us finding the Amber that it got stuck in is still extremely low.

[@a.kitcat.b]

This is really fascinating! I wonder what it would be like to be trapped in amber. I wish we could see everything that happened in the past, but amber is our only time machine-

[@sweetnsour80]

“Delightful, I love it!” Haha!

[@CHEVYCAMARO4GEN]

My brother doesn’t trust or believe me for what I learn here till I show em the source links. Out of context but just wanted to say

[@redwarrior2963]

My brother does the same thing. It's a bit annoying. :(

[@kushpack777]

All the potheads turned their raised their eyebrows when he said “tricones” lol

[@alecnolastname4362]

Trichome*

[@kashr7439]

Yaa bruh

[@torquess454]

Cool, glad this popped up on my feed, interesting 🤔

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

"15 to 45 million years old". Then "99 million years old". Huge variety in accuracies here.

[@nesirsitsir]

Update this list when we've found ambergris in amber

[@JohnCena8351]

Well....dinosaur blood!

[@believeinpeace]

Excellent!

[@bekah3054]

David Attenborough did a beautiful documentary about amber as well, I'm obsessed. 😍