6 ms·
I recently discovered that flowers didn't exist in most of the Jurassic era. Mind-blowing really.
by ummonk 4y ago
I recently discovered that flowers didn't exist in most of the Jurassic era. Mind-blowing really.
- tabtab 4y agoFlowers are relative newcomers. This is because it required a relatively tight relationship between insects and plants. Coordination between species is trickier to evolve.
- cubefox 4y agoEven more recent than flowering plants: Grass. > Before 2005, fossil findings indicated that grasses evolved around 55 million years ago. Finds of grass-like phytoliths in Cretaceous dinosaur coprolites from the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) aged Lameta Formation of India have pushed this date back to 66 million years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae For reference, dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago.