SCIENTISTS GOING MAD (!)
OVER MYANMAR AMBER TEXT: MARY BANFIELD
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Magazine | NR 42, 2020
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an palaeontologists get luckier? A dinosaur’s head stuck in amber, an extinct 3-D goblinspider; creatures that dominated Myanmar’s marshes 100 million years ago and are still preserved today in clear amber. That’s twice the age of amber from the Baltics, and five times Mexico’s Amber. “Myanmar amber is driving Scientists mad!”, said Roger Long, Curator, Myanmar Amber Museum. “Nowhere in the world is amber found that’s so unique. No palaeontology believed that a head of a dinosaur, ok a small dinosaur, could be captured in resin. Yet here in Myanmar that’s exactly what’s happened.”
