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Recently discovered plant material from deep beneath Pine Island might change the way scientists think about Florida's ancient geography.
Tests at the University of Florida show that a rock sample from an injection well contained pollen and spores from the oldest land plants ever found in Florida. The sample and, thus, the pollen and spores date to the Eocene epoch - about 35 million years ago - a time when scientists think the Florida Peninsula was at the bottom of a shallow sea.
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