Flowering plants transformed into 'hopeful monsters' in 9 dire bursts across evolutionary time, study finds

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In hard times, like when the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth, some plants transformed into "hopeful monsters" to save themselves. Now, a new paper shows that these monsters are more common than we thought. Explore the content:


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