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Flowering plants date back to the Triassic!

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02-10-2013 5:13pm

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Adam Khor

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http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/4274/20131002/flowering-plants-evolved-100-million-years-earlier-previously-believed-study.htm#.UkxF8FMkIYI

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#2 02-10-2013 7:44pm
Rubecula

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That is news to me I knew they went back to the Cretaceous, but Triassic is big news.

(I wonder if they go back any earlier in fact)

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#3 03-10-2013 9:22am
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Amazing finds thanks!!

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#4 03-10-2013 6:28pm
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Now we can finally put to bed the 'flowering killed the dinosaurs' crackpot theory.

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#5 03-10-2013 7:12pm
Rubecula

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Galvasean wrote: »

Now we can finally put to bed the 'flowering plants killed the dinosaurs' crackpot theory.

I think that was the triffids to be honest.

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