Sentences with phrase «paleobotanists at»

But last May, paleobotanists at the Florida Museum of Natural History and at Jilin University in Changchun, China, announced fossil remains of «probably the most complete, oldest flowering plant in the world,» says David Dilcher, a scientist who analyzed the 125 - million - year - old fossils.

«Explaining these glaciations has always been a problem,» says Charles Wellman, a paleobotanist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the new work.

«I think they're perfectly right,» says Gregory Retallack, a paleobotanist at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Scientists imagined they were big, but not that big, says William Stein, paleobotanist at Binghamton University in upstate New York.

Now researchers may be able to get around this lack of fossils by looking at insect damage instead, says Leo Hickey, a paleobotanist at Yale University: «The work shows the potential of an overlooked resource in [studying] the evolution of insects.»

The new study is an important step in solving several such mysteries about early Earth, says Brigitte Meyer - Berthaud, a paleobotanist at the University of Montpellier in France who was not involved in the research.

«The importance of vein density has never before been so clearly presented,» says Peter Wilf, a paleobotanist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Not exact matches

But in cladoxylopsids, «each strand of xylem had its own growth rings,» says paleobotanist Christopher M. Berry of Cardiff University in Wales, who co-authored the study with colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing and Binghamton University, S.U.N.Y.

Like Mellaart, paleobotanists Christine Hastorf and Julie Near of the University of California at Berkeley have found wheat, barley, lentils, and peas at Çatalhöyük.