Description: Small Baltic amber specimen with fossil insects inclusions. The insects are at least 40 000 000 years old and belong to Eocene - Jurassic period. Dimensions: 17mm x 11mm x 5mm. Amber is not a stone, it is fossilised resin of ancient pine trees. Millions years ago, a forest of pines existed in the present location of the Baltic Sea. At one time, the Baltic forest covered an area around the Baltic Sea and the Scandinavian Peninsula. Different insects caught by the resin remained trapped for centuries, creating unique "time capsule". Usually only small insects can be found, because bigger insects are strong enough to escape. Also mosquitoes are extremely rare in Baltic amber, because they were repelled by the smell of a resin. Baltic amber is one of the oldest and the most beautiful types of amber and it dates back to more than 40 million years. In AD 77 Roman scientist and philosopher Pliny the Elder wrote in "The Natural History": "Amber is produced from a marrow discharged by trees belonging to the pine genus, like gum from the cherry, and resin from the ordinary pine. It is a liquid at first, which ....... is gradually hardened by heat or cold, or else by the action of the sea, when the rise of the tide carries off the fragments from the shores of these islands. At all events, it is thrown up upon the coasts, in so light and voluble a form that in the shallows it has all the appearance of hanging suspended in the water. One great proof that amber must have been originally in a liquid state, is the fact that, owing to its transparency, certain objects are to be seen within, ants for example, gnats, and lizards. These, no doubt, must have first adhered to it while liquid, and then, upon its hardening, have remained enclosed within."
Price: 35 USD
Location: Sheffield
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