A team of Smithsonian and New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science researchers discovered a new plant in Socorro County that was around 65 million years before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

The fossils of the new plant species, Socorropeteria cancellarei, were spotted near the Quebradas Backcountry Byway, about seven miles northeast of Socorro, according to the science museum.

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