Researcher Wang Xin compares the fossil flower with the current flower at a press conference at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, Dec 18, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
World's earliest fossil flower unearthed in Nanjing
Scientists have found new evidence of the world's earliest fossil flower from specimens unearthed in the eastern China city of Nanjing, dating the origin of flowering plants to 174 million years ago, or the Early Jurassic.
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