Oldest flower bud ever discovered, massively changing plant evolution timeline
The oldest known fossil of a flower bud has been discovered by researchers in China, pushing back the evolution of...
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164 Million Year Old Fossil Changes Everything We Know About Plant Evolution
According to the scientists, the revelation changes our understanding of angiosperm development. Scientists have discovered the oldest form of a...
164-million-year-old plant fossil is the oldest example of a flower bud
The Fossilized Florigerminis jurassica plant with definite stem, bulbous fruit and fossilized flower bud (marked by the white arrow). (Image...
CPFS hosts “Fossil that shook the world” | Free content
After a year of Zoom and outdoor lectures, the Collegiate Peaks Forum Series will reopen its lecture series with a...
CPFS: Colorado fossil shook the world | Free content
After a year of Zoom and outdoor lectures, the Collegiate Peaks Forum Series will reopen its lecture series with a...
“Pompeii of Prehistoric Plants” Reveals the Secret of Evolution – Spectacular Fossil Plants Preserved in Volcanic Ashfall
Ash from a volcanic eruption 300 million years ago has helped preserve an ancient forest, including the foliage of newly...
New fossil pushes physical evidence for insect pollination to 99 million years: News at IU: Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A new study co-led by researchers in the United States and China has pushed back the earliest...
New fossil find pushes back evidence of insect pollination to a time when pterodactyls still roamed the skies
Here is an artist's impression of A. burmitina feeding on eudicot flowers. Credit: Illustration by Ding-hau Yang A new study...
Controversy erupts over first flower fossil
A small flower pressed between layers of sandstone for more than 160 million years could be the oldest flower fossil...