This fossil is a 47.5 million-year-old pressed flower
You can almost recognize this 47.5-million-year-old fossilized flower as a pressed chrysanthemum. What you’re seeing is the ancestor of daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, lettuce and artichokes, which evolved almost 50 million years ago, on a continent that no longer exists. Researchers discovered this fossil in Patagonia. It’s incredibly rare to find such a well-preserved example of…
