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Huge image database of inclusions in amber
Great books about amber
Some of the books, that I use and own and is essential in the study of amber:
- Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits,
D. Penney (editor) - Atlas of plants and animals in Baltic amber, Wolfgang Weitschat, Wilfried Wichard
- Aquatic Insects in Baltic Amber / Wasserinsekten Im Baltischen Bernstein, W. Wichard, C. Gröhn & F. Seredszus
- Fossil Insects: An introduction to palaeoentomology, D. Penney & J.E. Jepson
- Baltic Amber: A Palaeobiological Study, Sven Gisle Larsson
- The Ants of the Baltic Amber, William Morton Wheeler
- Fossils in Amber: remarkable snapshots of prehistoric forest life, D. Penney & D.I. Green
- Evolution of the insects, David A. Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel
- Life in Amber, George O. Poinar, Jr.
- Dominican Amber Spiders: a comparative palaeontological-neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography, D. Penney
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I can recommend the following page if you are looking for books with a high scientific level in an accessible language - www.siriscientificpress.co.uk
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Different articles about amber
Danish articles
- RAV , Nordens Guld (af Morten Hjuler, fotos af Søren Bo Andersen - Særtryk af GeologiskNyt)
Find many interesting new articles on my facebook page - daily updates - see them all here www.facebook.com/amber.inclusions
- World's 'oldest' spider web found
- Will amber inclusions provide the first glimpse of a Mesozoic proteome? (Gary B Smejkal, George O Poinar Jr, Pier Giorgio Righetti - Expert Reviews. Proteomics 6(1), 1-4 (2009))
- Ants are surprisingly ancient, arising 140-168 million years ago
- Rare body parts find provides vital clues to identity of ancient fossil
- Uninvited guests to the proteomics picnic. (Gary B Smejkal, Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, 2010)
- Insect Pollination, Oldest On Record, Seen In Dinosaur-Era Insects Trapped In Amber
- First orchid fossil puts showy blooms at some 80 million years old
- Burmese amber/ The mind-blowing Diogenes lacewing: how to store remains to survival 110 million years ago
- Burmese amber/ Ancient Insect: 'Unicorn' Fly Never Before Observed
- 15 Incredible Images of Prehistoric Creatures Trapped in Amber (Michele Collet, www.environmentalgraffiti.com)
- Aquatic organisms as amber inclusions and wxamples from a modern swamp forest. (PNASOctober 16, 2007 vol. 104 no. 42 16581-16585)
Websites
Danish websites about amber- www.ravklubben.dk The Danish Amber club
If you want the page translated into English using Google translator: www.ravklubben.dk - www.tardigrade.dk Danish site about microsopy and amber
If you want the page translated into English using Google translator: www.tardigrade.dk - www.ravjagt.dk Danish site about Danish amber
If you want the page translated into English using Google translator: www.ravjagt.dk - www.ravras.dk President of the Danish amber club selling his collection
- http://fossilinsects.net/lib.htm - Library of articles about fossil insects
- www.amber.com.pl - The biggest portal about amber (in english)
- Phylogeny of the Beetles - Christoph Benisch, 2010
- Understanding Evolution by the University of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
- Evolution by PBS
- Tree of Life web project, offers information on the diversity and evolutionary relationships of all organisms on Earth
- The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World by George Poinar Jr., & Roberta Poinar
- Discovering the lost world of the amber forests - BBC radio (Wednesday 16 February 2005 9.00-9.30pm)
- I would particularly recommend Hermann K Dittrich websites around the dominican amber. There are several websites but here is a link to a few of them - www.blueamber.info, www.amberinclusions.com. You can click on to the other from above link - infinity of useful knowledge.
- http://www.amberabg.com - Photographed collection of inclusions in Baltic amber.
- http://www.amber-ambre-inclusions.info/ - Photographed collection of inclusions in Baltic amber
Cambay Amber
- http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3826
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025152256.htm
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11618809
- Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota in amber from the early Eocene of India - www.pnas.org
- http://cambayamber.com/
- Upper Cretaceous Facies, Fossil Plants, Amber, Insects and Dinosaur Bones, Sareville, New Jersey - by Bruce Cornet, Ph.D.
- A formicine in New Jersey Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and early evolution of the ants - by D. Grimaldi and D. Agosti
- Ancient tick poses new questions - scientificamerican.com
- TerraTreasures.com
- New Jersey has treasure trove of amber - Jeff Poling.
- A Feather in Amber from the UpperCretaceous of New Jersey1A Feather in Amber from the UpperCretaceous of New Jersey - David Grimaldi and Gerard R. Case
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Good website on specific topics
Spiders
- Assassin Spiders - Archaeidae and Mecysmaucheniidae (Hannah M. Wood)
- www.edderkopper.net - Norwegian spiders (Glenn H. Morka)
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