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

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

RANK_REASON Discovery of ancient amber reported in a scientific journal. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.0]

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