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August 18, 2015

Paleobotanist identifies what could be the mythical 'first flower'
Bloomington IN (SPX) Aug 18, 2015
Indiana University paleobotanist David Dilcher and colleagues in Europe have identified a 125 million- to 130 million-year-old freshwater plant as one of earliest flowering plants on Earth. The finding, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, represents a major change in the presumed form of one of the planet's earliest flowers, known as angiosperms. "This discovery raises significant questions about the early evolutionary history of flowering plants, as well as the role o ... read more

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