Fossil is best look yet at an ancestor of buttercups
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 11:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientists from the United States and China have discovered the first intact fossil of a mature eudicot, a type of flowering plant whose membership includes buttercups, apple trees, maple trees, dandelions and proteas. The 125 million-year-old find, described in this week's Nature, reveals a remarkably developed species, leading the scientists to argue for an earlier origin of the eudicots - and perhaps flowering plants in general...
