The oldest flowering plant in North America may have been discovered in a fossil collection at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Nathan Jud, a PhD student at the University of Maryland, was examining ancient plant fossils at the museum when he discovered Potomacapnos apeleutheron, a flowering fern whose fossil is thought to be between 115 and 125 million years old.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/30/5158814/north-americas-oldest-flowering-plant-discovered-inside-a-museum
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