Tag: flowers
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164 million-year-old plant fossil is the oldest example of a flowering bud
LiveScience has a story about the oldest known example of a flower bud. Researchers in China have discovered a fossil flower bud from 164 million years ago. The new plant species, Florigerminis jurassica, was found in Inner Mongolia. The description was published in the journal Geological Society of London. There are two main types of…
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SciNews: 99-Million-Year-Old Fossil Flower Found Encased in Burmese Amber
SciNews has a story about a flower preserved in amber. The fossil flower is called Valviloculus pleristaminis. It lived about 99 miliion years ago during the Cretaceous Period in what is now Myanmar. Myanmar has amber deposits that have yielded some amazing finds, including dinosaur tails, feathers, wings, and even a skull. The discovery is…
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Fossil Explains Origin of Sunflowers
From BBC via geology.com … Finding this very well-preserved flower confirms that the family came from the ancient southern landmass, Gondwana, about 50 million years ago. The researchers, headed by Dr Viviana Barreda from the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, published their results in Science magazine… photo: By monteregina
