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Article: Flowering plants may have appeared 180 million years earlier than believed.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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Sydney, October 5 (ANI): The discovery of a piece of fossilized amber that came from a plant living more than 300 million years ago, has led scientists to suggest that flowering plants may have started to appear a lot earlier than previously believed.
It is believed that flowering plants only started to show up in the fossil record at the beginning of the Cretaceous period, around 120 million years ago.
But, according to a report by ABC News, the research shows that plants were far more sophisticated 300 million years ago than previously thought.
Paul Sargent Bray of Macquarie University in Sydney, lead author of the research paper, said that ...