The study, published today as the final Version of Record after previously appearing as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, details the second-earliest known winged seed -- Alasemenia-- from the Late ...

The researchers were able to date the seeds back to 365 million years ago, which makes them the second oldest winged seeds ever found. The plant was placed in the Alasemenia tria genus.

Scientists have studied this winged fossil seed, Alasemenia, discovered in a Chinese mine. Using mathematical modeling tools, ... In the earliest land plants, these mechanisms were rare. However, the ...

Thus, it makes sense that their seeds would often develop wings. However, we still find flowering plants that also produce winged seeds, some of which are in the Solanaceae. So I set out to collect ...

The study, published in eLife, details the second-earliest known winged seed—Alasemenia—from the Late Devonian epoch, roughly 360–385 million years ago.The authors use what the editors call ...

image: A fossil of the winged-seed, Alasemenia, sourced from the Jianchuan mine in Xinhang Town, China view more . Credit: Deming Wang. Scientists have discovered one of the earliest examples of a ...