More plants survived the world’s greatest mass extinction than thought
Fossils in a Jordanian desert reveal plant lineages that didn’t perish in the Great Dying
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CONE ZONE Found near the Dead Sea, this fossil of a conifer that lived more than 252 million years ago belongs to a family of plants that’s still around today.
Palaeobotany Research Group Münster