First rainforests arose when plants solved plumbing problem

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

A team of scientists, including several from the Smithsonian Institution, discovered that leaves of flowering plants in the world's first rainforests had more veins per unit area than leaves ever had...

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