Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

"Extraordinary" fossil discoveries reveal plants from 30 million years ago

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"Extraordinary" fossil discoveries reveal plants from 30 million years ago

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Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

Despite their age, some of the plant specimens preserve delicate soft tissues, such as those of the fruits and seeds.

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Now I want to know what that star-shape fruit tasted like.
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  Wyvern fruit.

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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more…

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