Following the time of the dinosaurs, it might well be that the evolution of flowering plants drove the explosion in the diversity of life on Earth, according to a 2021 paper.
, it might well be that the evolution of flowering plants drove the explosion in the diversity of life on Earth, according to a 2021 paper.
In a recently published literature review, University of Bristol paleobiologist Michael Benton and colleagues argue this changeover, which is thought to have occurred, was driven by flowering plants. It coincided with several innovations in angiosperm biology. "Flowering plants might have been around for some time, but they began to appear more commonly in the Cretaceous, in the last 70 million years of the age of dinosaurs,""But it seems that dinosaurs didn't choose to eat them, and continued chomping ferns and conifers such as pines.
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