AMBER BUGS

There’s a lot of fake amber out there. Fortunately, there’s a lot of real amber out there as well. This blog post will teach you the way to avoid the fakes and buy the real ones. 1) Know Your Dealer Businesses who specialize in fossils and amber are trustworthy because they specialize in sourcing the real thing from each country. And if a reputable business is caught selling fake amber, they will lose their reputation and a lot of money. Fake amber online - these items are fa

Two Mexican Amber Heart Figurines - Two sister pieces, cut from the same raw piece and show identical character. Their multi colored layers show the striking beauty of Mexican amber.      Mexican amber is approximately 28 million years old, dating back to early Miocene era. It is made from the now extinct Hymenaea Protera tree, the same as Dominican amber. This amber is found in Chiapas, Mexico, in the hills near the southern border. Mexican amber is often found alongside lig

Prehistoric Fern Leaf in Burmese Amber - Captured 100 Million years ago, when the dinosaurs roamed the earth.      Myanmar amber is estimated to be 66- 99 million years old, placing it in the time of the mid-Cretaceous period. This makes it a remarkable amber deposit that holds insects from the time of the dinosaurs, including the potential for fossilized pieces of dinosaurs themselves such as feathers. The Burmese Amber Zone - Myanmar amber comes from the state of Kachin in

How does amber form? Amber starts off its life millions of years ago as a sticky type of sap exuded by a tree, called pitch. Pitch is similar to sap, but more sticky, and if an insect lands on the pitch it will be trapped forever. You can still find pitch on trees today, like on the cherry tree pictured below. Fresh pitch on a cherry tree - This is an example of how pitch forms. You may have seen something similar in real life. You can see a leaf stuck to the pitch on the l