Which Came First, the Proboscis or the Flower?
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 12 January 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:35.0 | I'm Christopher and Tagyatta. |
| 0:37.0 | To learn about the plant life of long ago, |
| 0:40.0 | scientists dig through layers of the earth, looking for fossil clues, like bits of fossilized pollen or spores. |
| 0:46.0 | And that's where I come in. Timo Van Eldike is an evolutionary biologist at Utrecht University, |
| 0:51.5 | and he was called into action when his pollen hunting pals |
| 0:54.9 | noticed something altogether different. In a sample of sediment more than 200 million years old, |
| 1:00.3 | dug from a thousand feet below the surface of Germany, they found bits of insect. |
| 1:05.0 | I took a human nose hair because that's the way you isolate these things. |
| 1:10.0 | You have a needle tipped with a human nose hair. |
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