Former Wallflowers Became Globetrotters (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Former Wallflowers Became Globetrotters

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Micranthes atrata lives in the alpine tundra of the Tibetan Plateau in Central and East China. Tens of millions of years ago, plants in the Saxifragales lineage were extreme specialists, inhabiting the few cold regions on a more tropical Earth until a cooling climate opened up new habitats.

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