Baltic proud

Around 60 million years ago, vast forests of prehistoric pine trees grew in the present location of the Baltic Sea. The climate was warm, damp and these forests were a habitat of many different kinds of life that had survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. Eventually the climate cooled, forcing the extinction of the pines, but the resin stayed buried underground and slowly hardened into amber. Over millions of years, what once was forest became sea and strong currents, rivers and glaciers carried amber deposits to the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.