365-Million-Year-Old Winged Seed Fossil Found in China
Named Alasemenia tria, the new specimen from the Wutong Formation in the Chinese province of Anhui dates back to the Famennian stage of the the Late Devonian epoch, making it the second-earliest known winged seed. Fertile branches and seeds of Alasemenia tria. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.7554/eLife.92962.3. Many plants need seeds to reproduce….