Largest flower found in amber was frozen in time millions of years ago

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This beauteous angiosperm was trapped successful amber betwixt 33 cardinal and 38 cardinal years ago, preserving it successful exquisite detail

Life 12 January 2023

By Jason Arunn Murugesu

Fossil angiosperm  trapped successful  Baltic amber

This fossil angiosperm was trapped successful Baltic amber arsenic it released pollen

Carola Radke, MfN

The largest fossil of a angiosperm preserved successful amber has been described successful item 150 years aft it was archetypal studied – revealing that it was captured arsenic it released its pollen. Analysis of that pollen has led to its reclassification arsenic a antithetic species.

The fossilised angiosperm was primitively discovered and described successful 1872, says Eva-Maria Sadowski astatine the Natural History Museum successful Berlin, Germany. The five-petalled flower, which is astir 28 millimetres successful diameter, is encased successful …

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