A Rutgers scientist has identified a flower trapped in ancient amber as belonging to a species completely new to science. Struwe and the entomologist George Poinar, renowned for his studies of insect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carola Radke Since its classification in 1872, scientists have bestowed a special record to a flower that has been frozen in time ...

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Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a flower entombed in Dominican amber, the first-ever specimen of a plant family that has given the world some of the deadliest poisons, including ...

New images of the largest-known fossilized flower to be preserved in amber—which at 28 millimeters across is nearly three times the size of other preserved flowers—are published in the journal ...

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It's rare to find plant fossils intact, let alone plant fossils that go back at least 15 million years and relate to a modern pesticide. Last week brought news of fossilized tree resin whose ancient ...

The flower measures roughly an inch across and is at least three times larger than all other known amber-encased blossoms. Carola Radke / Museum für Naturkunde Berlin In 1872, scientists examined a ...