See the beautiful flowers preserved in amber over 100 million years old.

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Dinosaur era flowers look a lot like modern flowers.

go to south africa Find flowers from the slot Phylica genus, marvel at them and think back almost 100 million years ago, when those flower-like flowers blossomed at the feet of dinosaurs.A study published this week in the journal Nature Plants features two striking flowers preserved in ancient amber from Myanmar. One flower looks like a modern flower grown in South Africa today. The study was led by researchers at Qingdao University of Science and Technology in China.

Flowers tell the story of survival in harsh conditions. “Fossils were found alongside burnt plants that were long extinct. "Wildfires are important to early evolution of flowers," Open University said in a statement on Monday, said Robert Spicer, a paleontologist and professor emeritus at the university. is a co-author of the article.The modern relatives of these ancient flowers have a similar lifestyle in which they were adapted to surviving wildfires.