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Burmese amber – also known as burmite, is a Cretaceous age amber up to 99 million years old found mainly in the Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar (Burma). The most common amber containing insect inclusions of the Cenomanian.
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Myanmar Amber

In 1613, the Portuguese Jesuit Father Alvarez Semedo was one of the first Westerners to write about the Burmese amber mines. And, in 1836, a British military officer ,Captain SF Hannay visited the Hukawng Valley amber mines. From 1892 to 1896, German researcher Dr Fritz Noetling visited the amber mines and noted the presence of insects in amber from the Miocene age. In 1893, Noetling’s colleague scientist Otto Helm studied the amber samples and named the amber Burmite as it was different from other types of amber known at the time.In 1999, after decades of military rule, the country’s amber mines reopened and amber became available for study again. More recently, in 2016, a dinosaur tail found in Burmite amber.
It is believed that Myanmar amber is 99 million years old and was around during the time of dinosaurs. Among the things found in Myanmar amber include a dinosaur tail, dinosaur feathers, complete pterosaurs, primitive snakes, complete bird, early frog, flowers, and many modern and extinct insects.Because of the fossil inclusions, paleontologists, botanists and entomologists want to study amber. Myanmar amber are believed include approximately 228 families, and 870 species of organisms ranging from protozoa to vertebrates. They wait for more revelations from Myanmar amber.
Amber is tree resin that has hardened over millions of years, and it is not tree sap. An estimated 65 to 145 million years ago, what is now known as Myanmar possessed an extinct tree known as Araucariaccae, a type of pine.
Amber formation started with sticky globs of aromatic resin filled internal cracks and hollows, trapping insects, animals, plants and debris. The warm, golden organic gem is amber.The amber found in Myanmar is from the Cretaceous Period, which is approximately 99 million years ago. Amber is known as an organic gem and not a mineral gemstone. Many factors go into determining the value of amber. It goes without saying that it is good to know about amber.
One can find Cretaceous creatures such as scorpions and snails, lizard, gecko, and ticks trapped in Myanmar amber.
Crd: Myanmar Times

Myanmar Amber

Amazing amber
A beautiful and versatile material, amber (fossilised tree resin) has been treasured for thousands of years as jewellery. Found all over the world, it can vary widely in appearance and has had many different uses.Amber has the unique capacity to preserve fragile life, opening a special window into the past. Delicate insects and other inclusions have been kept safe in amber for millions of years.The rise of Burmese amber
Until relatively recently, Burmese amber was regarded as one of the rarer and lesser-known ambers. However, a resurgence in the study of this enigmatic amber over the past two decades means that it has become the most important amber from the Cretaceous Period (66-145 million years ago).A hundred years ago, this amber was considered to be about 40 million years old. At about that time, American zoologist Theodore Cockerell (1866-1948) named 37 species of insects and four other arthropods trapped within it, from the only public collection at the Natural History Museum in London.Renewed interest in this collection, mainly from Russian scientists, enabled the description of two new species of ant in 1996 and 15 other insects in 2000. It was then realised that these insects had more in common with those of other Cretaceous ambers.In about 2000, a Canadian mining company started exporting freshly mined amber from Myanmar (formerly Burma) and collections were built up in the USA. There then followed a steady output of papers describing new species from the American and London collections. Study of the sedimentary bed that the amber came from enabled it to be accurately dated to 99 million years old, based on radioactive zircon crystals.In recent years the Chinese have become very interested in Burmese amber and new mines opened up in Myanmar to supply the demand. Thus this amber is now more readily available and many scientists around the world are studying its inclusions. The number of new scientific papers published describing new species has skyrocketed and by the end of 2018, 1,192 species were known.A supplementary list of recently described species in Burmese amber can be found here.Burmese amber at National Museums Scotland
National Museums Scotland only has a relatively small collection of Burmese amber. Many of these specimens were displayed in the Amazing Amber exhibition in 2013.A few new species have been named from this collection and are shown here.Crd: National Museums Scotland.