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New fossils upend catastrophist narrative that flowering plants flourished only after dinosaur extinction

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Robert Sanders

9d ago

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Berkeley NewsNew fossils upend catastrophist narrative that flowering plants flourished only after dinosaur extinctionberkeley.edu
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Flowering plants, or angiosperms, now dominate Earth’s flora, but biologists thought they truly took off only after an asteroid impact 66 million years ago. A ‘botanical Pompeii’ containing fossilized seeds and fruits shows they prospered 10 million years earlier. The post New fossils upend catastrophist narrative that flowering plants flourished only after dinosaur extinction appeared first on Berkeley News .

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