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First flower

The oldest flower in the world looked very like the modern lotus. No fossils of the flower have been found, but scientists came up with a 3D model of what it must have looked like after analysing a mass of botanical data. It had both male and female parts and three whorls of petals. Flowering plants evolved during the age of the dinosaurs, brightening up a drab planet previously dominated by ferns  and 

TT Bureau Published 07.08.17, 12:00 AM
The oldest flower in the world looked very like the modern lotus. No fossils of the flower have been found, but scientists came up with a 3D model of what it must have looked like after analysing a mass of botanical data. It had both male and female parts and three whorls of petals. Flowering plants evolved during the age of the dinosaurs, brightening up a drab planet previously dominated by ferns  and mosses, according to the study reported in Nature Communications
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