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WASHINGTON (AP) - An increase in the planet's temperature 55 million years ago prompted major shifts in plant distribution, researchers reported Thursday. A study of plant fossils from the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming shows the arrival of plants from warm southern areas, displacing those that had been growing there previously, according to a research team led by Scott L. Wing, chairman of the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Their findings are...