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🔬 Science
July 06, 2026 at 07:12 PM
Early Flowering Plants May Have Relied on Dinosaurs to Eat Their Fleshy Fruits and Spread Their Seeds
Source:
Smithsonian Magazine
A new scientific discovery reveals that flowering plants produced large, blueberry-sized fruits millions of years earlier than previously thought, potentially relying on dinosaurs for seed dispersal.
angiosperms
dinosaurs
fossils
paleontology
plant evolution