NOVA scienceNOW | NOVA Short | Amber Slide Show

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George Poinar, Jr., is a research fellow at Oregon State University. Together with his wife Roberta, he has coauthored several books on amber, including The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World, where you can find these and other images of amber. 

This video podcast was edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google and BP. Special funding for NOVA podcasts is provided by the MacArthur Foundation. 

For more on ancient amber, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/youtube/redir/nova/jewel

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