Fossils being discovered in amber typically conjure up memories of Jurassic Park and the idea of resurrecting long - nonextant species . For now , that is very much scientific discipline fable , but gold fossils have quite a lot to teach us by bring home the bacon a shot of what life was like eons ago . A newly - describe gold fossil has been find to contain a cluster of small flowers , with one flower in the process of sexual facts of life . The announcement comes from a team of researchers from Oregon State University and Germany , and the newspaper was published in theJournal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas .
The flowers , which have been preserve in particular shape , are an nonextant coinage that live on 100 million year ago in the Cretaceous period . The fogy was recover from an amber mine in Myanmar ( in what used to be known as Burma ) , and the bloom which represent a new genus and species has been described and namedMicropetasos burmensisto reflect the location of the breakthrough . What ’s most impressive is that one of the 18 flowers in the process of sexual replication , making it the first acknowledge flower from this time period to have this process preserve .
Amber fossils are made from rosin , which is a sticky , viscous material from trees . If there are living organism in its path while it is dripping , they can quickly become cover in the honey - colored guck . Over the next few million age , the resin is exposed to varying storey of heat and pressure , until it is converted into amber , a semiprecious gem . Just like other process of fossilisation , amber formation can be disrupt . Exposure to conditions and microorganisms can forestall the rosin from becoming amber , and the enclosed being ( if there is one ) can be lost .
Because the flower were covered so cursorily , the resin was able to capture intricate details that would have been lose in other conservation method . This flower still shows the pollen subway system entering the stigma of the heyday . The individual pollen grain can be seen plainly under a microscope and grant to the investigator , they appear to have been sticky . This means it would have required the use of louse or brute to distribute pollen .
