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October 2, 2013

Plantas com flores: mais velhas do que imaginávamos? / Flowering plants: older than we thought?

Novidades na idade do surgimento das Angiospermas:

Novas descobertas de microfósseis (pólen, veja abaixo) na Suíça sugerem que as plantas com flores (angiospermas) podem ter sido originadas 100 milhões de anos antes do que pensávamos. Deem uma olhada no artigo da Frontiers in Plant Science:

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News about the rising age of Angiosperms:

New discoveries of microfossils (pollen, see below) in Switzerland suggest that the flowering plants (angiosperms) may have originated 100 million years earlier than we thought. Take a look at the article in Frontiers in Plant Science:


New fossils push the origin of flowering plants back by 100 million years to the early Triassic
Imagem de pólen de planta com flores do Triássico/Flower-like pollen from the Triassic. Fromhttp://phys.org/news/2013-10-fossils-million-years-early-triassic.html