Leaving aside the methodological breakthroughs of this paper for an instant, it will never cease to astound me that angiosperms only appeared in (or around) the Jurassic period.
Using extensive fossil occurrence data and Bayesian Brownian Bridge modelling, this study derives data-driven calibration densities for molecular clocks and suggests a Late Jurassic origin of flowerin...
Did flowering plants really spend 100 million years hiding from the fossil record?
For decades, fossils and molecular clocks seemed to tell completely different stories.
This became known as the "Jurassic Gap".
What if the problem wasn't the fossil record?
