The Baltic amber flower’s identity hadn’t been revised until Dr. Sadowski’s paper in Scientific Reports was published Thursday. Plants in amber are a rarity.

Within Spain, researchers had previously discovered a Baltic amber bead within a grave of “exceptional opulence” in the Murcia region. Belonging to a male individual of 35 to 40 years of age ...

Baltic amber, a rare material in Syria, was primarily sourced from the Baltic coast and transported along the Amber Route, an extensive trade network connecting Northern Europe to the Mediterranean.

The five-petal flower was preserved in amber and was unearthed in 1872 from a mine in Kaliningrad, Russia. It is about one inch wide and is three times larger than the second-biggest bloom ...

Baltic amber is usually estimated to be between 34 million and 38 million years old, though some deposits formed earlier. It erodes out of sediments along the shore of northern Europe’s Baltic ...

The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber, produced sometime during the Eocene epoch 56 to 33.9 million years ago. These forests produced more than ...

“Baltic amber beads were traded in enormous quantities in the past and have been found across Central Europe, in Italy, Greece and the Iberian Peninsula, and further on in Anatolia, the Levant ...

Biggest Flower Ever Found Preserved in Amber Is at Least 33 Million Years Old Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

A 40-million-year-old fossilized flower is shown preserved in amber. This is the largest amber-preserved flower fossil known to date. Carola Radke/Museum für Naturkunde Berlin ...

Plants encased in amber are uncommon to begin with—just 1 to 3 percent of organisms trapped in Baltic amber are botanical, per the New York Times’ Kate Golembiewski.