Burmese burmite Cretaceous rare big stonefly insect fossil amber Myanmar

We mine the burmites very very hardly and dangerously, but, for livelihood, I and my workers have to do this work. Now, burmites containing insects are less and less, you should treasure every burmite that you have meet. About burmite Burmese Amber or Burmite? Burmese amber from Myanmar is about 100 million years old, it comes from one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth and formation of modern flora and fauna. Burmese amber is witness of the times when angiosperm plants proliferated and the World biota has changed from gymnosperm-dominated into angiosperm-dominated.

Burmese amber is witness of rapid origination and radiation of modern insect groups. Burmese amber is witness of co-evolution of plants and animals, formation of new relationships between them, adaptation of insects to new host-plants, adaptation of flowering plants to new pollinators, but also to new consumers and pests. Burmese amber is witness of emergence of new relationships between insects, and between insects and other animals. Burmese amber provides not only record of the appearance of new species, genera and families, but it provides also evidence of specialized habits and habitats, life forms and palaeobehaviours, evidence of evolutionary process.

Amber gives the look on spectacular events of nature; contact with amber enriches mind and soul. Amber is a phenomenon of nature, and it should be appreciated at all levels for its uniqueness, beauty and scientific values.