6 of the Coolest Things We've Found in Amber

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Amber is amazing stuff! It can preserve organisms whole, and essentially freeze them in time, and the specimens we’ve found in it so far range from amazing to downright bizarre. Here are six of the coolest things we’ve found trapped in amber.
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Sources:
ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/amber.html
repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/24696/paleo_Labandeira_Paleont._Soc._Pap._2014.pdf
Carnivorous plant:
www.pnas.org/content/112/1/190.abstract
jeb.biologists.org/content/212/19/3184
Dino feathers:
science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6049/1619.full
Flea:
today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2015/sep/bacteria-ancient-flea-may-be-ancestor-black-death
academic.oup.com/jme/article/52/6/1234/869360
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150915141145.htm
Salamander:
www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/08/03Palaeodiversity_8-15_Poinar-Wake_4.pdf
today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2015/aug/first-ever-discovery-salamander-amber-sheds-light-evolution-caribbean-islands
www.cnet.com/news/ancient-salamander-in-amber-is-a-scientific-surprise/
Bat flies:
today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2012/feb/battle-vampires-20-million-years-ago
parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-3305-4-229
www.nbcnews.com/id/46256764/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/first-fossil-vampire-bat-fly-discovered/#.XYvTledKjOQ
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pameridea.jpg
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Viking Power
5 jam yang lalu
Number one is called the Sundew plant.
Nate
Hari Yang lalu
I thought it was already an obvious fact that the plague evolved with rats and flees without any need for humans.
Mark Gerard
Hari Yang lalu
Hey genius, since both the plant and bug ARE TOTALLY different, which one came first? Did all the plants die before it "found a bug" to help it eat and live? Since it's a symbiotic relationship, that would require that both were "made" at the exact same time?
Nate
Hari Yang lalu
Not necessarily. Humans survived for hundreds of thousands of years before they developed a relationship wiht some wolves (who also had been around for quite a long time) and then the wolves evolved into dogs and we've had a symbiotic relationship with them.
Nicholas Brown
2 hari yang lalu
Better get to work on those cures to the Bubonic Plague - and Typhus - since you know... California has both right now. Oh and both in Los Angeles. Wait - better yet - just let the Democrat dumb a$$e$ all die out.
Jeff Burleson
4 hari yang lalu
Are fleas only carriers of diseases or do they suffer and die from diseases or sicknesses like most lifeforms do?!
Nate
Hari Yang lalu
Well, with the plague they are as much victims as carriers. The glob of gunk that forms when the fleas drink plague-infested blood actually prevents their digestive system from getting the nutrients they need from the blood and starves them, forcing them to bite more and more to try desperately to feed which increases the chance of spreading the disease.
Knight Vesco
4 hari yang lalu
My will, "bury me in a box of amber"
Corey Grandmaison Archive
5 hari yang lalu
I love this fricken show so much!
Tony Karrar
6 hari yang lalu
When you realize you're species has been smoking excreted plant glue to get high for thousands of years
christopher fitch
6 hari yang lalu
They found a mosquito in Amber with dinosaur blood inside then they extracted dna and were able to recreate dinosaurs. You know about this right?
CalLadyQED
6 hari yang lalu
"Earlier in history"? History does go back a million years. I think he means pre-history.
Nate
Hari Yang lalu
My understanding was that History started with humans inventing a written language. Therefore I don't think it goes back a million years. The rest is all pre-history
Mark Rowland
7 hari yang lalu
The bird foot with electro in its name is because the ancient Greek word for amber is Electron. They might run it against wool and get zapped. We call the little bits of zapp, electrons. Who would have thought. Electric eels are called Torpedo. When you get zapped with 800 volts, it's as if your hand has been blown off.
TheBullethead
7 hari yang lalu
Just a nit to pick, but a lump of fossilized amber isn't an "artifact". An artifact is made by artifice, IOW, by people, not by natural processes like the fossilization of tree sap. But otherwise, good show.
Lance Wickum
9 hari yang lalu
Watched a few of your videos. Do you know what is means to ASS U ME things?
Ricky Barber
9 hari yang lalu
This comment is a little off the topic, but. Remember, I think in the 70s, give or take a million yrs Lightning would spark off a forest fire. The fire was watched to keep other areas safe. It would burn it's self OUT. Then some moron in Washington DC, came up with the idea, when a fire started, run out there and put the fire OUT. Well, fast forward a few decades, plus or minus couple million yrs. The undergrowth built up because man wanted to play God. "My thoughts are, this was planned out for a reason. This is a story for another time." Now, when a fire starts, natural or...otherwise, with the build up of dead undergrowth dry as a cotton ball, the fire becomes a uncontrollable fire storm that man cannot control almost by any means. Was it deliberately planed this way? Think about it.
Ricky Barber
9 hari yang lalu
Speaking of the Salamander, wading across to the Caribbean...one, the sand was just wet. Two, it had really long legs. My guess is, one remote chance, it took, Caribbean cruise ship. One really remote chance, Caribbean Air. Yeah, I know, what I said is out there in left field. Scientists, 95% of the time, can only speculate what may have happened. My guess was a 100% B.S. speculation and then some. LOL. That flea sure looked like any flea that you see on Fido today, didn't it? What about the feather sorta saying, it came from a, LEAPING Dino. That's a foul out in left field ya think? That's got to be a cream job being a scientist, make a guess, right or wrong and still get a paycheck.
Hunter Smith
Hari Yang lalu
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tectorama
9 hari yang lalu
Not forgetting that there are a lot of fakes for sale.
Thnz
10 hari yang lalu
This BACTERIA is the reason behind life on Earth.😯 idcinema.net/post/video-dkxYWVH6pRc.html
James Konzek
10 hari yang lalu
It would be way cool if the found dinosaur eggs in Amber, or better yet, an entire dinosaur.
Nate
Hari Yang lalu
Amber being like the blood of a tree you'd need a whole forest to bleed all its resin at the same time to enclose an entire dinosaur... I find it an unlikely event to occur naturally.
Jinto Lonappan
11 hari yang lalu
Did humans try to mummify with amber, any time in history?
Raymond Ready
11 hari yang lalu
Diving dinos? Someone's been smoking the sticky tricomes.
Raymond Ready
11 hari yang lalu
Sticky tricomes are awesome
david jones
11 hari yang lalu
show the stuff in amber that the goofy guy talking
Nicole Zeig
11 hari yang lalu
Couldn't the amber bird be a mutation individual to the specific bird encased in amber? Why is the assumption that it was an entire species?
Nate
Hari Yang lalu
Because it would be about as likely as finding only one human hand millions of years from now and that hand belonging to someone who had six fingers on that hand. It's not impossible but very highly improbable.
Borderlands808
12 hari yang lalu
I remember we found a mosquito in one and got dinosaur dna from it and started to bring all kinds of dinosaurs back.
C Levy
13 hari yang lalu
In high school I was found inside Amber by her dad.
Denis21
13 hari yang lalu
Girls named Amber: not cool.
Buzzroy
13 hari yang lalu
My friend chose cryonics, I chose pine sap. Who's laughing now, buster?
Paulo Teixeira
14 hari yang lalu
Ah yes... Fungei...
Mr X
15 hari yang lalu
As well as a dinosaur bone ~_~
Mr X
15 hari yang lalu
i found a $100 note in amber
optimistically cynical .
15 hari yang lalu
What is the common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs
Friedrich Lee
15 hari yang lalu
The Jurassic mosquito
Roy Lopez
15 hari yang lalu
I hate ask, but did they (or you) came up with all these dating? If the specimen found is "new" (or just not known, like today's many species found and labeled "new"), Couldn't we assume also that the specimen is actually recent?
Black Hippie
15 hari yang lalu
Dinosaurs are not real just another duke they push on you don’t believe everything you hear but only what you read 🤔
Todd Starbuck
16 hari yang lalu
Fun-guy. Not fun-jeye. The others. Not other ones. Apotosaurus. Not brontosaurus.
Ratt goo P
17 hari yang lalu
Me: *still thinks the amber i found in animal crossing wild world is cooler for some reason*
Michael Dean
17 hari yang lalu
Very cool. I just visited the Kuji Amber Museum in northern Japan yesterday. Amazing stuff.
Master Charles Diltardino
17 hari yang lalu
Trichomes? Like keif?
Simon Simon
17 hari yang lalu
Plague-infested rat blood... mmmm
Tinnitusthenight
18 hari yang lalu
People always say we cant have Dinos like in Jurassic Park because we don't have the DNA but they miss the point that in that fictional world they are lying about having the DNA in the first place and actually reversed engineered the "dinosaurs" from birds. They are genetic Frankenstein monsters that just resemble dinosaurs which is some brilliant science fiction writing imo.
Zes
18 hari yang lalu
wrg, any be any interesx, coolx etc no matter what
gartner10112
18 hari yang lalu
Fun-jai. Lol
David k
19 hari yang lalu
i find that very interesting they found a flea 15 million year's old flea in amber, which begs the question how old really is human beings? I'm not saying human's are 15 million year's old, but i will stake my life on it, that we are much older that 100,000-300,000 year's old as a human species, the reason is mammals lived with dinosaurs, granted they we're litte rats thing's but the fact remains this, it took what 65 million years to evolve into human's but we have crocodiles, alligators, coelacanth,and so-on that never really changed in 400,000 millions year's but we have these mysterious ape-like things that pop out, out of the blue randomly, but something has got to happen to the ecosystem radically for this to occur, but im going on and on about this subject, but content like this is thought provoking and very interesting.
Nate
22 jam yang lalu
@David k I honestly don't know if they all had defenses against mosquitoes or how many mosquitoes were around.
David k
Hari Yang lalu
@Nate see i stop myself form going on and on because i can go forever on the subject, think about this for one second it's 66,000 million year's ago there's reptilian dinosaurs, non-avian dinosaurs, tiny mammals, insects of all kinds, and every single one has some sort of defense mechanism i.e. armor pleading, feathers, etc, who was the mosquitoes feeding on? Second from the time of lucy to 40,000 year's ago only 1 humanoid species survived when there was dozens of humanoid species a 100,000 years ago, statistically speaking that shouldn't be 400,000,000 tell now we have scorpions, spiders, coelacanths crocodiles, alligators sharks, etc, there's only one of us, the point im trying to make, we must have gone back futher in time as a human species to make sence of theory of evolution of human beings.
Nate
Hari Yang lalu
As I recall something did happen to the ecosystem. We got caught in a part of Africa that progressively got drier and drier, turning from lush tropical forest into savanah and we adapted. Plenty of other species have appeared in tha time as well.
RyNz _
19 hari yang lalu
I cannot comprehend millions of years.
Don Duncan
19 hari yang lalu
One of the best SciShow videos yet!
Don Duncan
19 hari yang lalu
Too bad no really big trees exist to secrete gallons that could envelope a human for the enlightenment of the species that come along after we go extinct.
ABC 123
19 hari yang lalu
Who is this Amber woman you are speaking of?
Up-a-Creek
19 hari yang lalu
I do find it interesting, that without anyway to prove most of this stuff, the amount of speculation, imagination, rationalization, and conclusions "scientists" come up with and then admit they "have no clue"... if you have no clue then they shouldn't make "comments" that sound like "facts" or even "reasonable" theories....... Observation: The original Ford cars came in any color you wanted, as long is was black... Why?... if it was never documented as to why, how would you "speculate"... Black was the cheapest paint available?... actually Barn Red may have been more prevalent at that time as it had been the cheapest paint for farmers to use on their buildings... so why didn't ford use Barn Red?... White might have been cheaper, as you have to add pigment to White to get Black...?... if it wasn't documented as to why he chose Black... any "guess" would be just that... and to complicate that guess/speculation you'd have to learn everything you could about Fords life and preferences, and financial resources... he may have just liked black or may have found some company which gave him a "deal" he couldn't pass up... to speculation about things that happened billions of years ago, in another time and climate, etc... is somewhat silly and a waste of time... we could just marvel at it and say "way cool, I wonder why and how that may have happened" and leave it at that because we'll never know...
Erik Mm
20 hari yang lalu
Funji?
Mike Roberti
20 hari yang lalu
Plague Infested Rat Blood! I’m calling dibs on that as a punk band name.
Mike Roberti
20 hari yang lalu
Do Vegan plants consider themselves superior to carnivorous plants?
Paul D
20 hari yang lalu
If you know what's good for you, you'll mind your own business and leave Amber alone.
Rafter Rafter
20 hari yang lalu
2:3 Pameridea roridulae: I will give you meat in exchange for caca..... Capsid bug:You're shitting me; Right?
Оптимум
20 hari yang lalu
Спасибо.
Cuntsville
21 hari yang lalu
That plant found in northern Russia 35 million years ago, when Russia must have been warmer, probably was able to survive because of global warming caused by all those SUVs.
KeiranBro
21 hari yang lalu
*Smokes the sticky trichomes
mtlicq
21 hari yang lalu
It is common knowledge that the plague was spread to humans from fleas that came off of rats
mtlicq
21 hari yang lalu
Königsberg East-Prussia 2:58
selexie
21 hari yang lalu
And all this time I thought "amber" was something the TV show Fringe invented.
Victor Y.
21 hari yang lalu
Awesome video!
DangerOne
21 hari yang lalu
I can't be the only one singing 311 right now lol Wooooahh!! Amber is the color of ....our history? lol
Desquarius Jucks - The Patron Saint of Gang Shit
21 hari yang lalu
6 interesting things found from amber alerts
Penny Lane
21 hari yang lalu
Poor Amber.
wayne nahuy
21 hari yang lalu
How come I haven't evolved into money. It is an environmental nessecity all my life they must be wrong.
wayne nahuy
21 hari yang lalu
Now we have all kinds of rats on earth.
wayne nahuy
21 hari yang lalu
So they released black death on us humans again fascinating.
buddylee19082
21 hari yang lalu
Wow so we got the PLAGUE and MALARIA out of the same mountain range in the Dominican Republic!?
Paul Buswell
21 hari yang lalu
It always makes me smile when I see so many thumbs down on this type of video...Those pesky scientists..don't they realise that the earth is only 6000 years old!!!
Lorenzo Solano
21 hari yang lalu
Hi Hank, can you clarify this: I'm from DR (Dominican Republic), and we do have a common Salamander called "Salamanqueja" or "Salamandra", is the same you see and hear here idcinema.net/post/video-JMy3ALrzB3Q.html , my doubt is because you said that in the Caribbean there are no salamander, so those are not technically considered part of the Salamander family or are, but is an introduced species?
Nawar El Sabaa
21 hari yang lalu
Though Kaliningrad is politically a part of Russia, wouldn't it be better to speak about Poland/Germany climate when discussing amber from Kaliningrad?
BladesWillxBleed
22 hari yang lalu
So is it is possible then to study the genes of today's Streblidae bat flies to find genes that may be responsible for resisting bat malaria. Those genes can then be studied to find the flies' body's response to the malaria. If the human plasmodeom has the same vulnerabilities as the bats then hopefully we can reproduce the same kinds of defenses in our own bodies to develop preventative techniques so even if bitten by an infected mosquito we would already have that defense ready! Cause now we know they could get it before, so maybe they evolved a way to stop. Neat stuff! 👍