r/askscience

So I know that with e.g. dinosaur fossils we are not seeing actual bones. The bones are encased rapidly within some sort of "container" eg from a mudslide or dying in a bog, allowing for minerals to eventually occupy the space of where the dinosaur bones once were, so dinosaur fossils are actually rock.

However, when I google amber, it always says fossilized. But I don't know if that means amber is also rock in the same way bones are rock, or are we seeing the ACTUAL tree resin from millions of years ago?

Thanks.