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Fossils upend catastrophist narrative that flowering plants flourished only after dinosaur extinction
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A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants were minor players in Earth's forests until dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago.
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