New fossils push the origin of flowering plants back by 100 million years to the early Triassic
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 15:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Drilling cores from Switzerland have revealed the oldest known fossils of direct ancestors of flowering plants. These beautifully preserved 240-million-year-old pollen grains are evidence that flowering plants evolved 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers from the University of Zurich.