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.

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