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Flowering Plants' Roots Pushed Back 100M Years

Posted by Unknown on from the carl-sagan-lied-to-me dept.

Rambo Tribble writes "Frontiers in Plant Science has published research which suggests that angiosperms' origins are a lot older than we have thought; 100 million years older, in fact. This puts the roots of these plants in the Triassic, not the Cretaceous, as previously thought."

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  1. Re:Thus providing another example of scientific er by H0p313ss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, let's all worship angiosperms.

    That does have it's merits, for example we can prove they exist and unlike many gods they are nice to have in the house and garden.

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  2. Re:Thus providing another example of scientific er by Rambo+Tribble · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sex with relatives, at that.

  3. Trouble teaching kids biology by jfdavis668 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One day, we were on the lawn, where a maple tree and a white pine tree grow. I asked the students which were more closely related: The maple and the pine tree, or the maple and the grass? I could not convince most of them that the 2 flowing plants were more closely related. Most insisted that being trees, they were closely related. No wonder we have trouble teaching kids science.