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Recent studies estimate ferns split from seed-bearing plants about 400 million years ago.

From Scientific American • Sep. 23, 2022

If they migrate to where insects and seed-bearing plants have not been reestablished, they’ll perish.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2022

The forest birds, like so many island-bound creatures, have succumbed to wave after wave of invasive species, including feral hogs that root up native seed-bearing plants and mosquitoes that spread an avian form of malaria.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

Woodland women had developed agriculture independently, by cultivating squash, sunflowers, and other seed-bearing plants as early as 1500 BCE.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Grey, Sir George, preservation of seed-bearing plants by the Australian savages, i.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles