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World's oldest amber discovered in China, pushing back resin production timeline

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A team of Chinese researchers has discovered the world's oldest known amber, dating back approximately 393 to 383 million years to the Middle Devonian period. This finding, unearthed from a coal seam in Xinjiang, suggests that ancient plants were producing resin for protection much earlier than previously understood. The discovery, led by Luo Cihang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, challenges prior assumptions that the oldest amber was from the Late Carboniferous period, around 320 million years ago. AI

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World's oldest amber discovered in China, pushing back resin production timeline

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Dannie Peng ·

    China team unearths world’s oldest amber, hidden in ancient Xinjiang coal seam

    Chinese scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest verified amber in the northwestern Xinjiang region, revealing that ancient plants were producing protective resin 385 million years ago, long before most animal groups had emerged to damage them. The amber – discovered in coal …

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