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The discovery indicates that orchids arose between 76 and 84 million years ago, making them far older than experts had previously thought. Experts used the fossil pollen grains to estimate the ages of major branches of orchids living today. Details of the research by a team in the US are published in Nature journal. Despite being the most diverse plant group on Earth, orchids are rare finds in the fossil record. The authors of the Nature paper describe a mass of orchid pollen found stuck to the body of an extinct bee that lived 15-20 million years ago. The remains of the bee were trapped and preserved in amber from the Dominican Republic.
这段一样的。这篇文章很简单,我好像考了两个逻辑题 |