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NOVA | Amber Slideshow | PBS

Duration: 03:23

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. Funding for NOVA is provided by the David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.

For more on ancient amber, visit www.pbs.org/nova/jewel

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Post Date: June 7, 2007