From Earth.com - Flowering plants are losing major branches of their evolutionary history
Animals like the purple frog and the pygmy three-toed sloth already have conservation rankings that measure evolutionary uniqueness. The rankings reflect how isolated their branch of the tree of life is and how few close relatives they have. Scientists have built these rankings for endangered animals for nearly two decades. Flowering plants – all 335,000 known species – had never been included. A new study changed that, and the findings surprised even the researchers….read more?
Posted: 14/05/2026