Galactic Garbage Station

“It turns out it's really ancient Chinese fruit, so I guess I'm not mistaken.” Su Zhen laughed. He had checked the data before, but he wasn't sure.

Looking at Su Xin without a heart and lungs, Ye Bo and Zhou Xilei couldn't help but want to strangle him. Do you know how appalling this plant you brought out? Of course, they are excited at the same time. Because this ancient Chinese fruit is too valuable.

The ancient fruit of China, the “world's earliest flower”, which blossomed in Liaoxi, China, 145 million years ago, is a legend in the paleontological and archaeological worlds.

The ancient fruit fossils of China were discovered by Sun Lei and Jiqiang and others in the Lingyuan region of Liaoxi in 2000. Scientists have established this now extinct group of ancient quilt plants as a new family of early quilt plants, the "Gugocaceae”. Research suggests that ancient Chinese fruit is probably the ancestor of all flowers and cereals in the world today.

This major discovery is a new breakthrough in global research on the origins and early evolution of quilted plants, and the American journal Science, published on May 7, 2002, featured papers by leading scientists, Professor Sun Lei of Jilin University, and Quarter Strength Fellow of China's Geological Academy, among others, in an important position on the cover.

The morphological characteristics of this quilt plant are more surprising than in its time. According to traditional botanical theory, quilt plants evolve from a type of shrub similar to the native Mulan plant. However, Chinese ancient fruit is a small, thin aquatic plant, more like herbaceous plants.

In August 2003, another group of international research teams published another possible explanation for the ancient fruits of China in the journal New Trends in Botany, which found that the ancient fruits of China were most likely to grow completely immersed in water. In addition, using different classification profiles to analyze the resulting genealogy, the position of Chinese ancient fruit in the genealogy became ambiguous, which was not considered to be the basis of the flowering plant lineage by the first group of research teams, so they couldn't help but ask: “Are Chinese ancient fruit, the ancestor of flowering plants, or just a specialized early flowering plant? ”

According to the Science and Technology Daily, when the results were presented by Discovery magazine as "the earliest floral scent," Darwin was puzzled by the sudden emergence of quilt plants, also known as flower plants, in the late White Chalk Era (about 100 million to 65 million years from now), and the inability to find clues to their ancestral flora and early evolution, calling them “the mystery of disgust.”

Now, instead of fossils, there is such a living ancient Chinese fruit in front of us. Everything is completely different, and the "mystery of disgust” is likely to be solved.

The origins of humans, the origins of species, have been the subject of our study, because it is about the evolution of humans and species, about the future of humankind.

“Great, with this living ancient Chinese fruit, you don't have to base your speculation on fossils anymore. Perhaps a lot of mysteries will be solved.” Yerborough excited.

“This should also be very helpful in archaeological terms.” Zhou Xi said idly.

“What do you mean, it's obviously paleozoa. It's definitely time for me to bring back a graduate student in paleozoa, so don't mix it up.” Yeb said.

“This has to do with the ancient environment, archaeology, which was a hundred million years ago, of course, and with me.” Zhou Xi glared.

Unexpectedly, they quarreled again. Su Qian and several assistants were helpless. But they also know that they fight, but usually nothing happens. In fact, several assistants are also excited to be able to witness a creature that was more than 100 million years ago. How amazing is that? The news comes out, and it's bound to blow up the country, it's bound to blow up the world, because it's a global breakthrough, and it's a miracle.

Ultimately, Su Zheng watched them compete and couldn't continue watching. Then he took out a Chinese ancient fruit, one for each person, and they stopped arguing.

The last time they competed for spider fossils, Su Xiao sold them in the form of an auction, but this time they were given free research, because Su Xiao doesn't care much anymore, the price is too high, and they can't afford it. He was more concerned about being able to figure out something that would have a lot of good vibrations and effects on the planet and get recycling.

“Ahju, where the hell did you get so many extinct animals, and this ancient Chinese fruit, according to reason, it can't still be alive.” Yebo couldn't help but ask.

“Oh, nothing is impossible, the world is amazing, the facts are in front of you, don't you believe it? There are a few other plants besides this one. Would you like to take a look at them?” Su Xin said, deliberately changing the subject.

“And?” Yeb and Zhou Xiyi stared.

“Yes.” Su nodded.

“Of course you do. Take it out.” The old man and several assistants were all excited.

Su Zheng went into the house again, this time carrying out several plants at once, all small plants in the flower pot. They're all very special in shape.

“Oh, it's not...” A young man pointed at one of the plants, seemingly remembering something, but couldn't name it at once.

“Sun, moon, goat, garlic!” Another young man whispered softly.

“Hmm?” Ye Bo looked at him for a moment and nodded. "Xiao Wu, you're right. This is indeed the garlic of the sun and moon. ”

Only plants they call Sun Moon Pond Ear Garlic, pseudobulb oval shape, leaves are linear or linear pin shaped, 16-30 cm long, only 1-1.5 cm wide. Overall flower sequence, upper calcium and petal linear, approximately nine centimetres long, oval lip shape.

“What is Sun Moon Pond Goat Ear Garlic?” Zhou Xi was idle and confused.

“Hey, you don't know that.” Ye Bo smiled and explained, "This is Taiwan's unique species, distributed only on the island of La Rue in the Yuetan region of Nantou, about 750m above sea level. After the construction of Mingtan reservoir, its habitat was severely damaged, and no subsequent discovery has been recorded for more than 70 years and is likely to have been completely extinct. ”

“That is to say, another extinct species, thanks to your ease, as if it were sparse.” Zhou Xilei said.

Ye Bo and the young man just recognized are stunned. Yes, this is an extinct species. Although it's only been extinct for 70 years, it's at least an extinct species. How rare is it? But I'm so calm. It doesn't seem to surprise me. It seems that I've seen too many extinct species today. They're all a little numb. If I blame Su.

And they don't really want to look at the other plants very carefully, very carefully, and at a glance, they don't recognize any of them.