Fossils Provide Clues to Evolution of Flowers.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Publication: USA Today (Magazine)

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Daffodils, tulips, roses, and other flowers are so much a part of our daily lives that we take them for granted. To evolutionary scientists, though, the question of how and when flowering plants appeared on Earth has gone unanswered for more than a century.

Mosses were the first plants to emerge on land around 425,000,000 years ago, followed by firs, ginkgoes, conifers, and several other varieties....

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