Fu Qiang, a researcher at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, shows the restored picture of the fossil flower at a press conference at the institute 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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