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More than 90% of the plants on Earth are angiosperms, flowering plants whose seeds are enclosed inside fruit. And they’re everywhere -- but exactly how and when these plants came to be so ubiquitous is one of the most stubborn questions in science!

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Sources:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6497/1306.summary
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-019-0421-0
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