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Lost biblical tree resurrected from 1,000-year-old mystery seed found in the Judaean Desert
Scientists have grown an ancient seed from a cave in the Judaean Desert into a tree — and it could belong to a locally-extinct species with medicinal properties mentioned several times in the Bible.
Fossils from lush 53 million-year-old South Pole rainforest discovered in Tasmania
Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.
Rainbow swamp: The flooded forest in Virginia that puts on a magical light show every winter
Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a mesmerizing rainbow light show courtesy of the park's bald cypress swamp.
Fossils from Greenland's icy heart reveal it was a green tundra covered in flowers less than 1 million years ago
Greenland was almost completely ice-free at some point in the last one million years, fossilized flowers from a core sample taken from the center of the island reveal.
3 remarkable trees: A living fossil, a deadly canopy, and the world's biggest seeds that were once mounted in gold by royals
"Sailors believed they grew underwater at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and it was thought that male trees uprooted themselves on stormy nights and walked to find female trees, embracing them to pollinate their large flowers."
Even trees 'hold their breath' to avoid harmful wildfire smoke, research finds
Trees don't like to breathe wildfire smoke, either.
Massive sinkholes in China hold 'heavenly' forests with plants adapted for harsh life underground
Plants growing at the bottom of sinkholes in China's Dashiwei Tiankeng Group don't take up as much carbon as surface plants do, but they have much higher levels of nutrients in their tissues.
Why do strawberries have seeds on the outside?
While it may initially appear that strawberries are fruits covered in seeds, this is not actually the case.
