its discovery pushes back the date of when flowering plants diversified to around 127 million years ago, during the early cretaceous period.

这项发现将开花植物开始多样化的时间推到了大约一亿两千七百万年前，那时正是白垩纪的早期。

newly discovered pieces of amber have given scientists a peek into the africa of 95 million years ago, when flowering plants blossomed across earth and the animal world scrambled to adapt.

北京时间4月7日消息，据美国《连线》杂志网站报道，最近在非洲发现的几块琥珀化石内惊现9500万年前的昆虫和植物。 这一珍贵的发现，使科学家们有机会一窥当时非洲的风貌，那时开花植物在地球各地繁茂生长，而动物世界也正在努力适应改变的环境。

today, some 20, 000 species of bees are recognised pollinators, contributing to the health and wellbeing of the majority of the 235, 000 species of flowering plants on the planet.

今天，大约有20,000种蜜蜂被确认为授粉者，它们促进了地球上大多数开花植物（约有235,000种）的健康和安乐。

bees are a critical part of the foodchain because flowering plants depend on insects for pollination andthe honeybee is the most effective.

蜜蜂是食物链的重要组成部分，因为开花植物的授粉依赖于昆虫，而蜜蜂是最有效的授粉昆虫。

seagrasses are flowering plants found in shallow waters.

海草是一种生长在浅水中的开花植物。

flies and beetles are the original pollinators, going back to when flowering plants first appeared 130 million years ago.

回溯到开花植物初现的1.3亿年前，苍蝇和甲虫堪称最初的传粉者。

before the mid-cretaceous, 100 million years ago or so, flowering plants were scarce: conifers and their relations ruled the landscape.

白垩纪中期之前，也就是说大约1亿年前，开花植物很少见：裸子植物占据着地球的景观。

to reproduce, most flowering plants depend on a third party to transfer pollen between their male and female parts.

为了繁衍下一代，大多数开花植物都需要依赖外界力量为它们传授花粉。

nasa research has consistently shown that living, green and flowering plants can remove several toxic chemicals from the air in building interiors.

美国国家航空航天局的研究一再表明，活的、绿色以及开花的植物，能够清除建筑物内空气中多种有害化学物质。

plus, if you keep some flowering plants outside your windows, they may even attract lovely butterflies.

此外，如果您在窗外种植一些开花植物，它们甚至能吸引艳丽的蝴蝶。

in the three years since the last report, scientists have identified an additional 48 reptiles, eight frogs, eight mammals, 1, 184 flowering plants and 904 spiders, mites and scorpions in australia.

自上次报告的三年来，科学家们在澳大利亚已新发现四十八种爬行动物、八种青蛙、八种哺乳动物、1184种开花植物以及904种蜘蛛、螨及蝎子。

the appearance of flowering plants brought a new flamboyance to the planet.

开花植物的出现给地球带来了绚丽的景色。

duffy has worked with flowering plants called seagrasses that grow entirely under water.

duffy研究了一种叫做海草的开花植物，它完全生长于水下。

nonetheless, the earliest flowers appear to have been pollinated by insects, and the full-scale blossoming of flowering plants coincides with the rise of animals as go-betweens.

尽管如此，早期的花朵似乎也靠昆虫来传递花粉，随着充当花媒的昆虫的增加，开花植物全面开花的日子也就到来。

nonetheless, if you have coworkers with pollen allergies—and it's highly probable you do—you should either avoid flowering plants or snip off the flower buds as soon as they appear.

尽管如此，不过如果你的同事有对花粉过敏的（那几乎是必然的），那你只能要么就不去买那些会开花的花，要么就在花蕾一出现的时候就给掐去。

only those flowering plants which refused to die of neglect continued uncomplainingly to perform their respective duties without casting any aspersions on the gardener.

只有那些不愿因受忽略而死去的花草，继续毫无怨尤地各自开着长着，没有把任何的不满和毁谤倾倒给园丁。