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Or rather from a Utah ghost town. Or whatever was there 47 million years ago. A huge lake ecosystem near active volcanoes, perhaps?
A fossil plant stumps scientists, since it doesn´t seem to belong to any known family or genus, extant or extinct. Not sure why that´s news, tbh, but there you go.
I assume it was the scientific name of the darn thing (which supposedly means "alien plant") that caught the attention of the media. Can tie-ins to the drone scare be made here...?
"Alien plant" fossil stumps scientists
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