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New Fossils Push the Origin of Flowering Plants Back by 100 Million Years to the Early Triassic

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. Flowering plants evolved from extinct plants […]