Amber with Insect

Amber is fossilized resin from pine trees which grew in prehistoric forests. Resin running down a tree occasionally trapped small insects and preserved them for ages. Mosquitoes trapped in amber were the source of dinosaur DNA in the film Jurassic Park.

Baltic amber comes from the coniferous tree, Plinus succinifera, which dated from the Eocene Epoch (55-40 million years ago)!