Road construction unearthed the plant fossils, which date to about 360 million years ago, this week along a site near Grahamstown in Eastern Cape province. "Most of the plants that we're finding haven't been documented by scientists before," said Robert Gess, a researcher at Rhodes University in South Africa. Story highlights Workers discovered the fossils along a road construction siteResearcher: "Plants that we're finding haven't been documented by scientists before"Johannesburg (CNN) Most of the fossils are a little more than the size of a pencil tip, but their discovery in South Africa is a major one. The fossils include Archaeopteris notosaria, an ancient tree from the Devonian period. "We now have a far more complete picture of the plant."

Source: CNN June 03, 2016 09:43 UTC