EARTH: Amber-encased specimen could be oldest known grass
Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The evolutionary age of grass has been hotly contested. Scientists have previously dated the earliest grasses to 55 million years ago; after the dinosaurs went extinct. Now, a new 100-million-year-old specimen of amber from Myanmar potentially pushes back grass evolution to the Late Cretaceous.