Ferns are boring and they look like old houseplants! Well, slow your roll there. Some of these plants' relatives were around before the mega-continent Pangea broke apart. Ferns apply to today's research. Ferns give you an excuse to use words like fiddlehead, pteridology, and give each of us the chance to become a frond friend. Let's learn to be scientifically conversational.

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