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A scientific illustration reconstruction of a Late Cretaceous forest where a small mammal and a horned dinosaur eat the fleshy fruits of flowering plants.
Recent research appearing in the journal Science overturns a long-held idea that flowering plants didn’t evolve large fruits and seeds until after the mass extinction of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, when Earth was smacked by a giant asteroid.
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The KU Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships gave out $1,000 awards to 20 Jayhawks pursuing mentored research and creative projects across all disciplines.
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Understanding plant disease could help protect prairies in Kansas. Ecology & evolutionary biology graduate student Yalone Woodruff and colleagues in the Bever/Schultz lab are studying disease transmission in rosinweed as part of this effort.

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