Twelve-year-old David Attenborough received a piece of amber containing prehistoric creatures as a gift in 1938, which would later inspire his 2004 documentary.
In 1946, the area containing the world's largest known amber deposits, previously part of East Prussia, was transferred to the USSR and became the Kaliningrad Oblast.
Michael Crichton's novel "Jurassic Park," published in 1990, features the extraction of dinosaur DNA from amber-preserved mosquitoes as a central plot element.
Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of "Jurassic Park," released in 1993, brought the concept of extracting dinosaur DNA from amber to a wider audience.
In 1999, a projection suggested that DNA trapped in amber could potentially last up to 100 million years, significantly longer than previous estimates.
David Attenborough presented the documentary "The Amber Time Machine" in 2004, focusing on the preservation of prehistoric organisms in amber and inspired by a childhood gift.
A 2013 study challenged the idea of long-term DNA preservation in amber, as researchers were unable to extract DNA from insects trapped in the much more recent Holocene copal.
The year 2019 marked a significant point in the study of Burmese amber, with over 300 new species descriptions from the Hukawng Valley deposit, bringing the total to over 1,300.
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