Angiosperms - Understanding Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery'
Sunday, December 9, 2012 - 13:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
What Charles Darwin famously called "an abominable mystery", the apparent sudden appearance and rapid spread of flowering plants in the fossil record, is the topic of a paper which proposes new evidence that flowering plants - angiosperms - evolved and colonized various types of aquatic environments over about 45 million years in the early to middle Cretaceous Period. read more