Coffee lovers, listen up! Your favorite drink has a wild history.
Scientists recently discovered that the most common coffee bean around today wasn’t always there.
Imagine two different coffee plants way back in Ethiopia, over a million years ago, accidentally mixing their genes. This happy accident created a whole new kind of coffee plant – the one used for most of the world’s coffee today!
This new plant even got a bonus – extra genes from both parents! Scientists think these extra genes might be why this type of coffee bean took over and became so popular. So next time you grab a cup of coffee, remember – you’re enjoying the result of a million-year-old accident!