Flowering plants, or angiosperms, now dominate Earth’s flora, but biologists thought they truly took off only after an asteroid impact 66 million years ago. A ‘botanical Pompeii’ containing fossilized seeds and fruits shows they prospered 10 million years earlier.

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, now dominate Earth’s flora, but biologists thought they truly took off only after an asteroid impact 66 million years ago. A ‘botanical Pompeii’…

Un excepcional yacimiento en Nuevo México demuestra que las angiospermas, plantas con flores y frutos carnosos, ya dominaban la Tierra por lo menos 10 millones de años antes de la…