Did Dinosaurs Frolic in Fields of Flowers?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Perhaps because there was no one intelligent enough to appreciate them, flowering plants–according to most estimates–didn’t arise in the evolutionary record until the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous periods (about 190 to 140 million years ago, give or take a few million years). Now, a team of scientists who have conducted a “molecular divergence” analysis of modern flowering plants claim that the earth may have been pushing up daisies for a significantly longer time–perhaps as far back as the middle-to-late Triassic period, 230 million years ago, which also marked the the appearance of the first dinosaurs. Coincidence, or something more sinister? Actually, the dating of flowering plants has much less to say about dinosaurs than it does about
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} Perhaps because there was no one intelligent enough to appreciate them, flowering plants–according to most estimates–didn’t arise in the evolutionary record until the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous periods (about 190 to 140 million years ago, give or take a few million years). Now, a team of scientists who have conducted a “molecular divergence” analysis of modern flowering plants claim that the earth may have been pushing up daisies for a significantly longer time–perhaps as far back as the middle-to-late Triassic period, 230 million years ago, which also marked the the appearance of the first dinosaurs. Coincidence, or something more sinister? Actually, the dating of flowering p
