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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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.

The largest fossil of a flower preserved in amber has been described in detail 150 years after it was first studied – revealing that it was captured as it released its pollen. Analysis of that pollen ...

Angiosperms may be distinguished from their gymnosperm peers by their flowers, and thus a flower is a good proxy of fossil angiosperms. However, flowers and their parts are usually too frail to be ...

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Eva-Maria Sadowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, didn’t have a particular agenda in mind when she decided to borrow the biggest fossil flower preserved in amber ...

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.

A study of the Baltic specimen offers new insights into what Europe’s climate was like some 35 million years ago. By Kate Golembiewski Eva-Maria Sadowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural ...