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Flowering Plants' Roots Pushed Back 100M Years

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. Thus providing another example of scientific error by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly science is always correcting itself, it cannot be infallible, but is prone to mistakes that they are always fixing. A flawed system than cannot be trusted.

    Unlike religion, which is never ever proven wrong. That makes it reliable and trustworthy. It's even self-certifying.