Introduced Biodiversity at the Colosseum

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The most amazing Twitter thread…. When botanists started exploring the Colosseum in the 1800s, they discovered it was full of plants that were not at all native to the region. How did they get there? Could it have been as seeds stuck to the fur of the African animals brought there to fight?

 Category: Conservation    

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