Animal, mineral or vegetable? If you can guess the identity of the object in this image, leave a hint or a cool fact in the comments (but try not to give the game away)!
Story (and Hint): It was January, 1862 when Charles Darwin first laid eyes on a specimen of the Madagascar orchid Angraecum sesquipedale and exclaimed, “Good Heavens”. He went on to predict that an object like the one in this photo would be found. A few years later, Alfred Wallace agreed with Darwin’s hypothesis, saying of the orchid, “I maintain…that the laws of multiplication, variation, and survival of the fittest, already referred to, would under certain conditions necessarily lead to the production of this extraordinary XXX”. Wallace made a drawing of his prediction, and was proved correct a few decades later.
Photo attribution: Steve Gschmeissner