Fossils from a 74-million-year-old forest in New Mexico reveal that flowering plants produced large, grape-sized fruits millions of years before the asteroid impact.
Published in Science, these findings challenge the theory that complex fruit-bearing plants and animal seed dispersal evolved primarily after dinosaur extinction.&nbsp;
Instead, the exceptional &ldquo;botanical Pompeii&rdquo; deposit suggests that <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/palaeontologists-discover-turkey-sized-dinosaur-that-fed-on-prehistoric-fruits-23658199" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">dinosaurs </a>and early mammals consumed and dispersed a much wider variety of fruits far earlier than previously believed.
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Published in Science, these findings challenge the theory that complex fruit-bearing plants and animal seed dispersal evolved primarily after dinosaur extinction.

New Mexico fossils show flowering plants produced large fruits during dinosaur era

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