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David Attenborough - The Amber Time Machine

submitted by mauz15

1 decade 5 years 9 months ago

David Attenborough turns his life long fascination with amber into a time-traveling detective story that spans 150 million years. Examining and identifying the contents of this unique material, he opens a window into prehistoric tropical rainforests and unravels detailed stories about the plants and animals that lived in them.

Amber washed up on the shores of the Baltic Sea was given to David when he was 12 year old. He goes there to find out what that piece of amber has to tell about life in the forest where it bled from some sort of pine tree, trapping a community of insects as it oozed down the bark.

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Moving this video to mauz15's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

KamikazeCricket says...

We can also thank that damn movie (JP) for skyrocketing the price of amber pieces and other fossils to the point of the ridiculous.

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