{"id":1875,"date":"2026-07-17T19:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/385-million-year-old-amber-found-in-china\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:19:40","slug":"385-million-year-old-amber-found-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/385-million-year-old-amber-found-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"385-Million-Year-Old Amber Found in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sci.news\/images\/2026\/07\/image_14926f-Hujiersite-Amber.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Middle Devonian Hujiersite amber. Image credit: Lu et al., doi: 10.1126\/sciadv.aeh1266.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Paleontologists in China have discovered what they say is the earliest confirmed pieces of amber ever found, a fossilized resin roughly 385 million years old (Middle Devonian epoch) that predates the previous record-holder by about 65 million years.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/hujiersite-amber-14926.html\">385-Million-Year-Old Amber Found in China<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paleontologists in China have discovered what they say is the earliest confirmed pieces of amber ever found, a fossilized resin roughly 385 million years old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[319,318],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-breaking-science-news","tag-sci-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}