Welcome to the Amber Lab
We now offer an identification & photography of amber inclusions service for collectors and dealers at incredibly competitive rates: please email siri.press@live.co.uk with your requirements: each specimen identified by a leading amber expert will significantly increase its value as part of a collection or for resale purposes pages last updated 27th March 2011
These web pages are being developed by Dr David Penney, an amber research scientist at the amber lab of Siri Scientific Services and Visiting Scientist in the Preziosi lab of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK. For a list of mainly amber-related publications by Dave Penney
CLICK HERE. At present, the primary aim of this site is to showcase nice photographs of identified fossil inclusions preserved in amber (some of which are for sale) and to create an awareness of
my current research. The fossils on this site originate mainly from the Dominican Republic and Baltic regions, but some from other regions are also included.

Giving the keynote lecture at an amber symposium in Berlin
Book: Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits AVAILABLE NOW...click here for more info...and here to order!
If you like amber you will love this book!
HAVE A NEW FOSSIL SPECIES IN AMBER NAMED AFTER YOU...click on the Current research tab and scroll to the bottom of the page
NEW FOSSIL DNA EXTRACTION PROJECT COMING SOON...click on the Current research tab
New species recently discovered: spiders, lacebugs, lacewings, flies: see Current research pages for papers in preparation