The World's First Flower Probably Looked Like The Modern-Day Magnolia

Maitreyi Mantha
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 07:36:56 -0700

Scientists have long known that the world’s first flower bloomed between 250 million and 140 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period when dinosaurs dominated the earth. The single mutation was so successful that flowering plants, or Angiosperms, now make up almost 90% of all plant species, far outnumbering seed plants like conifers, that appeared on earth much earlier, between 350 million and 310 million years ago.