Orchids date to time of the dinos

Ancient orchid pollen found attached to a bee trapped in amber suggests the "supermodels of the plant world" were blooming at the time of the dinosaurs.

The discovery indicates that orchids arose between 76 and 84 million years ago, making them far older than experts had previously thought.

Experts used the fossil pollen grains to estimate the ages of major branches of orchids living today.