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Earliest Known Flowering Plant Discovered
Montsechia vidalii, an aquatic plant found in Spain, has been identified as the oldest known flowering plant (angiosperm), 130 million years old, with fossils from the Lower Cretaceous.
See also:
angiosperm,
Cretaceous Period
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Tortured Artist
In 1853 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh—one of the greatest Post-Impressionists, whose works convey not only keen observations of nature but the anguish of mental illness—was born.