Flowers for Allosaurus

This dead fossilise flower has been excavate 125 million years after it uprise . Some scientist hypothesize that it was part of a rotation that took down the dinosaurs .

If you had to choose between dinosaurs and flowers , which would you choose ? It look like nature had just that selection , and went with the posies . The Cretaceous period saw the declination of the larger , non - avian dinosaurs and the rise of flower works . Scientists hypothesise that angiosperms – flora that regurgitate via flowers – were part of what wiped out the big dinosaurs .

Scientists in China recently found a well-nigh - perfect pressed flower fogey . Leefructus mirus was one of the first flowering plant , may have been one of the soldiers in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution , a period that saw a massive variegation of mammal , wench , insects , and reptiles , but no large dinosaur .

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The flowers did n’t intend to slay the monsters , of course . Angiosperms were the first works that used flowers to entice creature into spread their pollen . Past plants had rely primarily on wind and water . Any animate being could have taken them up on their fling , but smaller , lighter creature were well - placed to take reward of the new source of food . Larger dinosaurs were n’t going to switch their diet to get a few drops of nectar . The angiosperms ’ effective means of reproduction rent them circularize speedily , out - breed existing plant . expectant dinosaurs take in their food vanish in front of them , and then vanish with it .

So next time Valentine ’s Day rolls around , hold off on the rosebush . Sure , it await like they ’re only armed with their thorns , but they ’re still the descendents of the flora that take down many of the dinosaur . Also , at that point they ’re ordinarily overpriced .

ViaNew ScientistandJrank .

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