Posts Tagged ‘fossil flower’

WFS News:World’s Oldest Flower Unfurled Its Petals More Than 174 Million Years Ago

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Dinosaurs that lived during the early Jurassic period could stop and smell the flowers if they so desired, according to a new study that describes the oldest fossil flower on record. The flower, named Nanjinganthus dendrostyla, lived more than 174 million years ago, the researchers said. Until now, the […]

Strychnos : A fossil flower from Tertiary amber

Researchers today announced in the journal Nature Plants the discovery of the first-ever fossil specimens of an “asterid” — a family of flowering plants that gave us everything from the potato to tomatoes, tobacco, petunias and our morning cup of coffee. But these two 20-30 million-year-old fossil flowers, found perfectly preserved in a piece of […]