Study Indicates Royal Ferns Are 'Living Fossils' (9 of 10) (IMAGE)

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Study Indicates Royal Ferns Are 'Living Fossils' (9 of 10)

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This is a Japanese royal fern (Osmunda japonica), a close modern-day relative of the Early Jurassic fossil, found on Mount Takao near Hachioji, Japan. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 21 March, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Benjamin Bomfleur at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues was titled, "Fossilized Nuclei and Chromosomes Reveal 180 Million Years of Genomic Stasis in Royal Ferns."

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