* Astronomy

To their surprise, the plants, which have a one-metre-wide, blood-red, rotten-flesh stinking flower, belong to a family of plants bearing tiny blooms.
The Rafflesiaceae were tricky to place because of their unusual features, the team reports in the journal Science.
The botanists used DNA analysis to delve into the ancestry of the Rafflesiaceae, revealing that the plants belong to the Euphorbiaceae family.

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