When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance by Riley Black Ingram and tempts her with the

and tempts her with the forbidden

As the sun set on the shortest day of the year

Fifty years ago

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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance by Riley Black Ingram and tempts her with theA gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory. Each petrified leaf and root show us that dinosaurs, saber toothed cats, and even humans would not exist without the evolutionary efforts of their leafy counterparts. It has been the constant growth of plants that have allowed so many of our favorite,