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Plants near rivers and lakes can drop their leaves into the water where rapid burial might preserve those leaves in the fossil record. Photo by Flickr user Matt Dean.
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Plants near rivers and lakes can drop their leaves into the water where rapid burial might preserve those leaves in the fossil record. Photo by Flickr user Matt Dean.