Scientists say there are more than 270,000 species of flowers that’ve been documented and are living in the 21st Century. But scientists have not begun to answer straightforward questions about these wonders of beauty…

What led on to their dazzling variety? Are there flowers that have not changed much during the development of this planet? The 1st plant fossils found were woody magnolia-like plants going back 93 million years. Paleobotanists have more lately exposed little herb-like flower fossils dating back 120 million years. Ripening plants, called angiosperms by scientists, were apparently already various and found in most locations by the middle of the Cretaceous period 146 million years back. A myriad of pictures of saved flowers and flower parts [in extraordinarily fine detail] have been discovered in fossils found in Sweden, Portugal, Britain , and along the Eastern and Gulf coasts of the U. S.