{"id":155241,"date":"2026-07-28T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155241"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:00:07","slug":"china-team-unearths-worlds-oldest-amber-hidden-in-ancient-xinjiang-coal-seam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155241","title":{"rendered":"China team unearths world\u2019s oldest amber, hidden in ancient Xinjiang coal seam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists have uncovered the world\u2019s oldest verified amber in the northwestern Xinjiang region, revealing that ancient plants were producing protective resin 385 million years ago, long before most animal groups had emerged to damage them.<br \/>\nThe amber \u2013 discovered in coal seams in West Junggar, part of an ancient zone where tectonic plates collided, grew and merged \u2013 pushes back the record by roughly 65 million years and challenges some long-held assumptions about the origins of plant&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3361968\/china-team-unearths-worlds-oldest-amber-hidden-ancient-xinjiang-coal-seam?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists have uncovered the world\u2019s oldest verified amber in the northwestern Xinjiang region, revealing that ancient plants were producing protective resin 385 million&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}