Amber fossil links earliest grasses, dinosaurs and fungus used to produce LSD
Monday, February 9, 2015 - 13:51
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered -- about 100 million years old -- and even then it was topped by a fungus similar to ergot, a hallucinogen which for eons has been intertwined with animals and humans. Among other things, it gave us the psychedelic drug LSD.