Past Locked in Gold

In most cases, nothing remains of life forms that are hundreds of millions of years old. Sometimes, we are fortunate enough to find their fossilised bones. It takes a stroke of luck to find soft tissues or skin impressions. And occasionally, what we find is miraculous: perfect, fully preserved prehistoric remains. Micro-worlds that show us exactly what things looked like in the age of the dinosaurs. However, to discover this, we need amber.