Fossil Is Best Look Yet at an Ancestor of Buttercups

Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 13:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Scientists from the United States and China have discovered the first intact fossil of a mature eudicot, a type of flowering plant whose membership includes buttercups, apple trees, maple trees, dandelions and proteas. The 125 million-year-old find, described in this week's Nature, reveals a remarkably developed species.

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