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Ancient climate shifts may explain why today's flowering plants are so diverse
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Australia. The first report grouped here was at 14 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Ancient climate shifts may explain why today's flowering plants are so diverse”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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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 explain how flowering plants became dominant among land plants. The study, published in Nature Plants, examined fossilized…
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Ancient climate shifts may explain why today's flowering plants are so diverse
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