The amber we find along the Danish coasts is called Baltic amber. This amber is between 30 and 50 million years old. The so-called amber forests once covered a large part of Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea areas. Today we know that the amber is old resin from extinct wood species, but earlier, there were many theories about the origins of amber. Some of the more colourful explanations were that amber was wax from the wood ant or dried urine from the lynx. Resin slowly changed its molecular structure in the very oxygen-poor conditions under the water. Had the resin been in contact with oxygen, it would never have become amber.
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