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Scientists Identify New Flower From a Forest That Existed 100 Million Years Ago – ScienceAlert
Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Valviloculus pleristaminis makes for a perfect example.
Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Valviloculus pleristaminis makes for a perfect example.
Scientists only recently identified this mysterious, extinct flower. It once bloomed in the Cretaceous period – a floral relic of a bygone age, preserved in time-stopping amber since some nameless day when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.
“This isn’t quite a Christmas flower but it is a beauty, especially considering it was part of a forest that existed 100 million years ago,” says emeritus…
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