Chemical analyses of amber excavated near Paris suggest that France was covered with a dense tropical forest about 55 million years ago.
ANCIENT SAP. Amber from France’s Oise River basin contains quesnoin, a substance whose precursor is made in abundance by a tree found today only in the Amazon Basin. A. Nel/National Museum of Natural History, Paris
Amber is a form of fossilized tree sap.
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