Entombed Together: Rare Fossil Flower and Parasitic Wasp Make for Amber Artwork
Published:13 Jul.2022 Source:Oregon State University
Oregon State University fossil research has revealed an exquisite merger of art and science: a long-stemmed flower of a newly described plant species encased in a 30-million-year-old tomb together with a parasitic wasp.
"Based on interests, background and current environment, everybody has their own way of interpreting visual images in the natural world," said George Poinar Jr. of the OSU College of Science. "Thus an organism can be described, given a scientific name and then stored away in a taxonomic hierarchy. The same organism can be regarded as an art object and even assigned to a particular art period."