Meet The World’s Most ‘Safeguarded’ Tree—A Jurassic Survivor Thought Extinct Until 1994
The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...
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Once thought extinct, dawn redwoods are the smallest sequoia; where to see them in Michigan
A dawn redwood planted in 1954 stands about 86 feet tall and 3.9 feet in diameter at Michigan State University's Beal ...
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It Turns Out This Mass Extinction Event In A Tropical Cloud Forest Never Happened, Which Means Plants Thought To Be Extinct Are Alive And Well
Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...
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11 Of Ancient Earth’s Most Unbelievable Prehistoric Animals
For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...
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Ancient fossilised trees offer window into prehistoric India
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...
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A new book explores the evolutionary romance between plants and animals
Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.
Thousands of animal bones — and 13 mammoths — found at prehistoric hunting camp
The bones belonged to dozens of hunted species, the institute said, including woolly mammoths. The skeletons of at least 13 mammoths were discovered at the site, dating to a period researchers ...
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Zoo trying to save one of the world’s rarest birds from extinction
Once abundant on Socorro Island, part of Mexico’s Revillagigedo Archipelago, the Socorro dove was last seen in the wild over ...
Britain’s rarest flower ‘ghost orchid’, believed to be extinct reappears after 15 years
The rare ghost orchid, unseen in the UK since 2009 and thought extinct, has been rediscovered in a British woodland by ...
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The ginkgo, the tree that lays eggs
"The tree that survived Hiroshima," "prehistoric tree," "living fossil"... Ginkgo biloba has been given many labels, not always accurate, which overshadow one of its greatest peculiarities: its ...
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Inaugural ‘Pennsylvania Chestnut Festival’ promotes history and conservation efforts
A new festival in Castanea Township, Clinton County, looks to celebrate the area’s chestnut history and raise awareness about ...
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Are birds reptiles?
"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...