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Magnolias Are One of the Oldest Flowering Plant Lineages on Earth
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Magnolias are one of the oldest flowering plant lineages on Earth
Photo by Lee WolfeSpring has sprung in our front yard with this huge saucer magnolia in bloom. I recently learned that magnolias are considered one of the oldest flowering plant lineages on Earth, with fossils dating back over 95-100 million years to the Cretaceous period. They existed alongside dinosaurs and evolved before bees, developing strong, fragrant flowers designed for pollination by beetles. Our tree is a hybrid - a very distant relati…
In 1870, workers repairing a flood-damaged road in Gilboa, New York, made a discovery that would forever change our understanding of primitive life on our planet. By lifting up the earth, they stumbled upon hundreds of fossils of what seemed to be tree bumps. They were huge, strange, [...]
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