In most cases, nothing remains of a life form that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Sometimes, we are lucky enough to find its fossilized bones. We must have a winning lottery ticket if we find impressions of soft tissue, like skin. And sometimes, what we find is nothing short of a miracle: perfectly intact creatures preserved in every detail. Creatures locked in golden time capsules, and we know exactly how they looked in the age of dinosaurs. For this, we need amber.

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Amber is fossilized tree resin. One barely notices them because most of the time they are small as a piece of jewellery. But for paleontologists, they are priceless. Remains that have been preserved with all their soft tissues. In our film, biologist and palaeontologist Márton Szabó and geologist Péter Gulyás introduce viewers to fossilized amber and the past they have encased.

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