Often used in jewelry, amber is a resin from fossilized trees, the oldest of which dates back more than 300 million years.
In recent years, the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar, former Burma, has produced numerous findings.
In January 2017, researchers discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber that had a passive resemblance to ET.
Its features, including the triangular head and bulging eyes, were so unique that researchers placed a new scientific order, Aethiocarenodea.
The side eyes of the head would have given the insect the ability to see at almost 180 degrees simply by turning its head.
In June 2017, investigators revealed an incredible brood trapped in amber, which they believe fell a few days ago into a sap pond that sprouted from a conifer in Myanmar.
The incredible find showed the head, neck, wing, tail and feet of an already extinct bird that lived in the time of the dinosaurs, 100 million years ago, with unprecedented detail.
The researchers nicknamed the young enantiornitina “Belone”, with the Burmese name of the eastern amber of Alicante amber.
The breeding belonged to a group of birds known as the “opposite birds” that lived next to the ancestors of modern birds.
Archaeologists say they were actually more diverse and successful, until they died with dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
They had important differences from modern birds and their shoulders and feet had grown very differently from those of modern birds.
In December 2017, experts discovered incredible ancient fossils of a tick grabbing a dinosaur feather and another, called “Dracula’s terrible tick,” inflated after gulping blood.
The first evidence that dinosaurs had blood-sucking parasites were found preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber.
The newly discovered tick dates from the Cretaceous period from 145 to 66 million years ago.
In 2021, researchers announced that they had discovered a new species of land snail 99 million years ago preserved at amber moments after birth.
The “marshmallow-like” Cretatortulosa soft body of the gastropod was preserved in the sap, as were its five offspring.
The same week, Myanmar scientists announced another discovery of a new species of ancient lizard trapped in amber at about the same time.
“Oculudentavis naga” was confirmed as a lizard after a computed tomography scan of his skull and partial skeleton.