3 Facts about Fossil Plants You probably never heard of fossil facts botany

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🌿 Discover the wild side of plant history! 🌱 Here are 3 weird and fascinating facts about fossil plants you (probably) never heard of. This time covering: Dinosaur-killing asteroids paving the planet for plants, first plants causing an ice-age, Baobas on ice! • For more in-depth reading, check out these sources: • #1 Blonder, B., Royer, D.L., Johnson, K.R., Miller, I., Enquist, B.J. 2014. Plant Ecological Strategies Shift Across the Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary. PLoS Biology, 12: e1001949. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001949 • #2 Lenton, T.M., Crouch, M., Johnson, M., Pires, N., Dolan, L. 2012. First plants cooled the Ordovician. Nature Geoscience, 5: 86-89. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1390 • #3 Pross, J., Contreras, L., Bijl, P. et al. Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch. Nature, 488: 73–77. doi: 10.1038/nature11300 • #plant #plants #paleontology #paleobotany #science #biology #fossil #asteroid #ice-age #antarctica

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