Most animals have their own version of tree rings. Here's how we biologists use them to help species thrive
We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...
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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Ancient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of Indo-European Language Family
Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...
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‘The Tree of Authenticity' Is a Cinematic Essay About Congo's Colonial Past and Ecological Significance
But the colonial history and ecological significance of the country in Central Africa is getting the spotlight in a new ...
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How Kentucky is identifying crime victims and suspects through their family trees
Forensic genealogy uses DNA evidence to build family trees and identify victims or suspects ... the 1976 murder of Carol Klaber. "It means the world to us," Mittelman said of his team finding ...
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The Australian species spreading all over the world and exacerbating bushfires
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If you’ve been around the world a couple of times or maybe more, you’ll have seen the sights of gum trees on almost every ...
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My Experience Doing Genealogy Research
Before beginning, I googled for a listing of free online genealogy research websites and found several. Some of the sites that I examined were Familysearch.org, Kindredtrails.com, The Olive Tree, ...
Arkansas Catholic17d
Genealogy hobby unites family, reveals hidden stories
If you love family stories and history, building a family tree can be an interesting hobby or family activity that can bring different generations together. Arkansas Catholic editor Malea Hargett’s ...
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Fossils found in China may add a new branch to the human family tree
Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species ... that some people share ancestry with today. Now, researchers are trying to solve the ...
ZDNet24d
Have a genealogy mystery? How I used AI to solve a family puzzle
Ancestry predicted that we were "half 2nd cousin 1x removed," but the shared DNA quantity doesn't necessarily place the relationship on a family tree. It just tells you how many jumps away one ...
Scientific American25d
Our Ears Share a Common Ancestry with Fish Gills
By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today ... evolutionary tree between fish and mammals ...
Greek Reporter25d
Strange Blue Rings in Trees Reveal History of Volcanic Eruptions
In Norway, scientists have found blue rings in trees that hint at how volcanic eruptions disrupted growth throughout history. Credits: Credits: Havardtl, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists ...