New Fossils Push the Origin of Flowering Plants Back by 100 Million Years to the Early Triassic
It always saddened me a bit to think that stegosaurs never had their day brightened by flowers. :)
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Oct. 1, 2013 — Drilling cores from Switzerland have revealed the oldest known fossils of the direct ancestors of flowering plants. These beautifully preserved 240-million-year-old pollen grains are evidence that flowering plants evolved 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study in the open-access journal Frontiers in Plant Science. ... |
It always saddened me a bit to think that stegosaurs never had their day brightened by flowers. :)
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