What are some animals that have been trapped in amber?
Amber is a gold substance made of fossilized resin or sap of trees. Sometimes it is called fossil resin and the fossilization process is primarily one of the polymerization where monomers in the resin in the form of longer and stable polymer chains are primarily. They only form when a large number of sap is available and that SAP is trapped underground, leading to pressure on millions of years. The semi -picked amber, an intermediate product between the resin and the amber phase, is called Copal. Most pieces are about 30 to 100 million years old, dating back to the Cretaceous period, dominated by dinosaurs.
This material is often used as a gem for jewelry, although it is not a mineral. One of the reasons that Amber is famous is for their occasional inclusion - the peculiarities in the resin that reveal a little trapped organic or inorganic material. Organic inclusions are the most popular and can be sold for millions of dollars for collectors. Organic inclusions are the wayEny, when an animal, usually insects, gets stuck in a drying tree and is trapped in amber forever.
Some animals that are trapped in amber include flies, ants, beetles, moths, spiders, centipedes, mills, thermites, mayflies, lice, mites, hung, bees, wasps, scorpions, stuks, cockroaches, cockroaches, grasshoppers, damselflies, butterflies. Flies (diptera order) are the most common integration, which make up 54% of all findings. Findings without insect include plants such as Fir, Cypress, Juniper, Pine, Spruce, Oaks, Buk, Javor, Chestnut, Magnolia and Cinnamon, Palms, Fern and Mosses.
Some of the most precious findings are inclusions that are neither plants nor insects: lizards, worms, spiders, frogs, crustaceans, mushrooms, savage bones, feather and mammal hair. Larger animals like most mammals are too big to get into the tree resin, easy to step out it even when they are for a moment behindcut. Sometimes the resin makes contact with water before being formed into amber, and will be filled with inclusions of sea crustaceans. In this way, about 1,000 species of animals were found.
Amber inclusion is somewhat rare, but not incredible. In the Dominican amber, 1 inclusion can be found for every 100 pieces, in the Baltic amber there are inclusions in every about 1000 pieces.