New fossils upend catastrophist narrative that flowering plants flourished only after dinosaur extinction - Berkeley News
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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.
  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    Does that suggest that this type of angiosperms existed in this local ecosystem before the extinction, but maybe only dispersed globally afterward? (I.e., that local biodiversity was a successful bet-hedging strategy against mass extinction?)