This discovery is set to shake up everything known about Cycad plants.
Two University of Kansas paleobotanists have discovered a well-preserved 80-million-year pollen cone in California, and the discovery is set to change how scientists view cycad plants. Before now, Cycads – which are a group of gymnosperms that have a striking resemblance to miniature palm trees – were believed to be “living fossils.”
Brian Atkinson, a co-author and assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, revealed that cycads didn't change much over the years. He pointed out that the Fossil record of cycads had come with much misunderstanding and many things that have been called cycads had turned out not to be the plant at all.
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