Fossil flower of Symplocos kowalewskii (Symplocaceae) from Baltic amber – to date, by far the largest floral inclusion discovered from any amber. With a diameter of 28 millimeters across, a fossil ...

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Flowers discovered perfectly preserved in globs of amber bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs, suggesting that some flowering plants in South Africa today have remained unchanged for 99 million years, a ...

When Sir Peter Crane began his career as a paleontologist in the early 1980s, he was one of few people who focused on fossil flowers. They were rarely preserved, or so went the conventional wisdom.

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Fossil research has revealed an exquisite merger of art and science: a long-stemmed flower of a newly described plant species encased in a 30-million-year-old tomb together with a parasitic wasp.