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Ancient climate shifts may explain why today's flowering plants are so diverse
Source: Phys.org · Published
The two warmest time periods on Earth in the past 140 million years drove both mass extinctions and explosions in plant diversity, according to researchers in Australia and Austria who say this could…
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