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Birds

In

Amber

Recent discoveries of amazing inclusions in 100 million year old amber from Kachin State in Myanmar include birds and their nests, eggs and feathers.

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Bird

Head

in amber

A giant cretaceous dino bird head in amber, the increase in amazing discoveries is happening on an almost daily basis at the source and it is just a matter of time before scientists discover them too.

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Scientific

Confusion

Old school paleontologists are very confused by fossil evidence that refutes their theoretical beliefs or interferes with their vested financial interests. Avian Amber research helps support and bridge the knowledge gaps created by "scientists" and their transition from 2d dust and rock prints to 3d amazing preservation amber.

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Paleontology via true fossil evidence

100 million year old amber from the Cretaceous period comes with fabulously preserved flora and fauna with high transparency and preservation as well as many good size pieces that facilitate the study of a specimen's habitat

Futuristic Paleontology

A full bird in amber is extremely rare, here we have collected birds' nests in amber and groups of birds in amber along with extensive habitats all with incredibly high grade preservation, pterasaur heads in amber gives a collection that ranges from very small birds in amber to very large birds in amber.

Incredible Detail

The deeper you look the more you see. Modern optics and imaging techniques enable researchers to delve deeper and deeper into prehistoric life forms opening up a whole new realm of paleontology.

DNA Possibilities

Some amber pieces contain blood, flesh and skin, some pieces contain parasites such as leeches and ticks that have gorged on blood. These pieces cannot be sacrificed for protein researchers but those with genetic interests may be considered.

High Preservation

Apart from birds there are ants, mosquitos and other insects, there are spiders, scorpions and pseudo-scorpions, botanicals ranging from leaves, ferns and lichens to carnivorous plants and flowers. Frogs, lizards, mudskippers and newts

DNA in Amber

Many pieces of amber exhibit numerous potential DNA harvesting characteristics, usually material of very high preservations, if not potential large animal parts then gorged blood-sucking creatures such as ticks and leeches which exhibit much higher potential than the dream of finding animal DNA in a mosquito.

3D color & CT scanned

3D optical microscopes with custom lighting and focus stacking. CT scanning. (Synchrotrons cannot be used with burmite as they alter the FTIR and possibly darken/reduce transparency of amber)

Documentation

Research into amber is still in its early years. Advancing methods of producing image based research based on real fossils in cretaceous amber with sufficient preservation to facilitate detailed analysis of both the inclusion being studied and it's habitat helps maximise scientific discovery potential.

Discover

Apart from focussing on rare high quality inclusions in amber for general research purposes we also have a few pieces of "extra-ordinary" amber for scientists wishing to make in-depth highly-noteworthy ground-breaking discoveries.

Contact

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BURMITE

Avian Amber

More birds both with and without feathers are being discovered in amber continuously. Details of some of these pieces can be found by browsing the Tetrapoda section of the menu at the top of every page.

The site has raw CT data available for you to download and render yourself, there are also our own samples of video renders and static renders of Cretaceous animals including pterosaurs, birds lizards and a triton.

Should you require further bird in amber imagery do not hesitate to contact us. The items displayed are just part of our continually growing collection and should you be seeking a species not shown here just let us know and we will get back to you promptly.

We do not only archive vertebrates in amber but all lifeforms. Many of the specimens are not solo inclusions but groups and interactions such as lizard vs spider, bird vs spider, lizard vs cricket, anurognathid + cricket vs dragonfly and many more. Spiders for example are represented by numerous different families including pelican spiders, tarantulas, harvestmen, jumping spiders, mites and many more.

All the holotypes that we archive are ethically sourced with full export licenses and tax payments without any specimens being bought from military or government sources but rather supporting local communities and internally displaced people (IDPs) at places like the International Red Cross. Local artisans of all races and religions are supported including the Lisu, Jingpo, Christians, Moslems and Buddhists.

Accurate origins are researched and verified using advanced scientific equipment.

Featured Works

computers are used for advanced amber inclusion imaging

Computerized Tomography

centipede in amber and their environment

Under Review

amber inclusions can reveal many clues as to the real causes of extinctions

Extinction Evidence

spider in amber, many species of arachnid can be found in amber

Bizarre Inclusions

a small bird is seen emerging from an egg trapped in Cretaceous amber

Emerging from eggs

npt only egg has been found in amber but also bird emerging from egg

Bird Eggs cretaceous amber

nematodes, leeches ticks and centipedes found trying to attack birds

Enemies of Cretaceous Bird

Amazing Amber

unusually large head in Cretaceous amber is very rare

Bird Head

in Amber

Bird eggs

in amber

Pterosaur or bird Head

in Amber

bird or Pterosaur Head

in Amber

Bird eating

nematode

Possible Feathers

in Amber

Terry

Highland Archive

Undiscovered

Fossils

Amber vibes

“When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.”

— Hendrik Nicholas Poinar evolutionary biologist specializing in ancient DNA

“But the world moves on, even when you don’t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops. That’s harsh and magical and somewhat comforting because nothing is immutable, however much we want it to be. Moments cannot be caught like fossils in amber, ever- perfect,ever-beautiful. They go dark and raw, full of shadows, leaving you with the memories. And the world moves on.”

— Ann Aguirre American author of speculative fiction

“A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. “What bird are you calling?” I asked finally, when I couldn’t stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. “You.”

— Karen Russell American novelist

“There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs in Amber.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

“Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes seen as simple, primitive creatures. That’s a long way from the truth. The fact that they are solar-powered means that their bodies require only 10% of the energy that mammals of a similar size require. At a time when we ourselves are becoming increasingly concerned about the way in which we get our energy from the environment and the wasteful way in which we use it, maybe there are things that we can learn from Life in Cold Blood.”

— Sir David Attenborough, Naturalist

“Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.”

— Diane Setterfield, British author

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

— Sir David Attenborough, Naturalist

Cretaceous bird eggs

Recent trends in Avian Amber

bird or Pterosaur skull in amber