paleobotany
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Paleontology - High School
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"It was truly surprising to find these fossils," says Héctor Palma-Castro, a paleobotany student at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023
Preivously, scientists knew very little about the paleobotany of the period between the last group of megaherbivores and their mammalian successors in the Late Eocene.
From Salon • May 3, 2022
William Carruthers rose to become keeper of botany at the British Museum, and "a towering figure at the time in paleobotany".
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2021
She was born in southern Africa, in what is now Zimbabwe, and she studied paleobotany at the University of Capetown.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2018
New data in comparative genomics and paleobotany have, however, shed some light on the evolution of angiosperms.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
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