Nature's great survivors: Flowering plants survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs

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Sep 12, 2023, 7:00 pm121 pts
A new study published in Biology Letters by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants escaped relatively unscathed from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. While they suffered some species loss,…

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