Fascinating, moving, beautiful. The first dinosaurs lived in a world without flowers. The traces of the flowers that Darwin couldn’t find were discovered and analyzed by a woman who is still applying her paleo-biology expertise at age 75. The Fossil Flowers That Rewrote the History of Life
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-fossil-flowers-that-rewrote-the-history-of-life
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@NinaBernstein1 When you appreciate the extent to which grasses have conquered the world, it's remarkable to realize that they too didn't exist until the late Cretaceous. Imagine a world full of life with no grasses or flowering plants.
