Discover the wild side of plant history! Here are 3 weird and fascinating facts about fossil plants that you probably didn't know. For further reading, check out these sources:

#1 Cichan., MA & Taylor., TN 1981. On the structure and morphology of the seed Pachytesta muncii N. SP. (Medullosales). Revue de Paleobotanique et Palynologie, 34: 359-367. doi:10.1016/0034-6667(81)90051-8

#2 Sadowski, E.-A., Seyfullah, LJ, Sadowski, F., Fleischmann, A., Behling, H., Schmidt, AR 2015. Carnivorous leaves of Baltic amber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112: 190-195. doi:10.1073/pnas.1414777111

#3 Kerp, H. 1990 The study of fossil gymnosperms using cuticular analysis. PALAIOS, 5: 548-569. doi:10.2307/3514861

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