Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of subjects, but she is particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology, nanotechnology, and exploring how science influences daily life. Laura is a proud former resident of the New Jersey shore, a competitive swimmer, and a fierce defender of the Oxford comma.
ArticleBody:A lack of dinosaurs traipsing around following the K-T mass extinction may have allowed the grape we know and love to spread and thrive. A team of researchers found fossilized grape seeds dating back 60 to 19 million years old in Colombia, Panama, and Peru. The find includes the oldest known example of plants from the grape family in the Western Hemisphere and tells some parts of the grape’s evolutionary story for the first time.
Photos by Fabiany Herrera, art by Pollyanna von Knorring. Despite being tiny, the team were able to identify it based on its shape, size, and other physical features. They also conducted CT scans in the lab that showed its internal structure. They named the fossil Lithouva susmanii–Susman’s stone grape–in honor of Arthur T. Susman, a supporter of South American paleobotany at the Field Museum.
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