Artemisia Vulgaris · @CommonMugwort
756 followers · 3794 posts · Server social.coop

Living fossil

#cycad #cycads

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Tom Parker · @Tomozaurus
298 followers · 60 posts · Server sauropods.win

Rough scale diagrams of some of the largest and Nilssonia leaves from the .

#cycad #jurassic #fossils #illustration #scientificillustration #Palaeobotany

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MikPetter · @mikpetter
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@jhaue
from the news item after examining the 80 million years old fossil they concluded
“...the external morphology of this pollen cone is different from living cycads today. This finding suggests cycads aren't really 'living fossils' and they probably have a more dynamic evolutionary history than previously thought."..

#cycad #ecoevo #evolution #deeptime

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Sarah Primate · @LangurLover
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graftandspur · @graftandspur
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Ste Cook · @Polypompholyx
118 followers · 126 posts · Server mastodon.social

Some people think there is such as thing as “too many cycads*”. Some people are wrong.
(*See also: ferns, clubmosses, liverworts, cacti, carnivorous plants, ginkgo cultivars, bonsai, ‘weeds’ in the lawn)

#botany #cycad #Cycas #zamia

Last updated 2 years ago