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Nature’s Beauty: Largest Known Prehistoric Flower Preserved in Amber

As tree resin petrifies and turns into amber, it forms a golden time capsule preserving anything and everything it encases. Thanks to that fossilized tacky substance, we can study and admire the beauty of an ancient flower that’s more or less 35 million years old today. Amber preservation The usual fossilization process, from decay to ...

Arianne Ayson

Largest flower in amber.