Scientists Create a 'Time Tree' Showing How Flowering Plants Came to Dominate Earth

Today, flowering plants (or angiosperms) make up around four-fifths of all the green plants on Earth, but for billions of years they weren’t around at all. Now biologists have been able to fully chart the rapid rise of angiosperms over the last 140 million years. A newly published ‘time tree’ of flowering plants shows in […]

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