When Did the First Flower Bloom?

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ During the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs were more diverse, more fierce, and more strange than ever. But something else was happening under the feet of the terrible lizards: for the first time in history, there were flowers. Thank you to CuriosityStream for supporting PBS. To learn more, go to http://curiositystream.com/eons Thanks to Julio Lacerda, Joschua Knüppe and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: Joschua Knüppe: https://www.deviantart.com/hyrotrioskjan Julio Lacerda: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Check out other PBS Digital Studios channels: https://www.youtube.com/KQEDDeepLook https://www.youtube.com/braincraft https://www.youtube.com/pbsinfiniteseries https://www.youtube.com/grossscienceshow References: http://faculty.frostburg.edu/biol/hli/research/Eoflora.pdf https://phys.org/news/2015-08-paleobotanists-mythical.html http://science.sciencemag.org/content/296/5569/899?ck=nck&siteid=sci&ijkey=8dZ6zTqF606ps&keytype=ref Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/