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'Ptree' is an interactive tree of life that allows you to trace the lineage of animals, plants, bacteria, and viruses.
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (397+ words) Ptree is a website where you can navigate through the classification of organisms by clicking on them, and learn about various characteristics such as their diet and lifespan. I tried out this interactive Tree of Life, which allows you to…...
A giant Pompeii-scale eruption buried an ancient Andes landscape and preserved it for 22 million years
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (1364+ words) A 21.9-million-year-old volcanic blanket preserved clues showing part of the Andes may have risen slowly for millions of years. (CREDIT: Frances J. Cooper) A volcanic eruption of extraordinary size buried an entire Andean landscape nearly 22 million years ago. Instead of erasing…...
Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil
6+ hour, 15+ min ago (620+ words) 620 CKRM Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is horticulture’s best-known living fossil. Abundant and cosmopolitan in the fossil record extending back 270 million years, the tree was thought long extinct by Western scientists. Then in 1690 botanist Engelbert Kaempfer…...
Ancient Fossil Carpel-Like Organs Push Back Flowering Plant Origins
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (83+ words) Bioengineer.org For now, the specimen rests in the type collection under catalogue number PB206132, available for scrutiny by other researchers. The open-access publication ensures that the images and reconstructions can be independently assessed, an important step given how consequential the…...
Genomic evidence identifies the origin of goosegrass on Nishinoshima, a newly emerged volcanic island
4+ day, 5+ min ago (107+ words) Credit: Takashi Kamijo, University of Tsukuba This study provides rare genetic evidence of how plants colonize newly formed volcanic islands and offers important insights into the earliest stages of ecosystem establishment in isolated oceanic environments. The findings also highlight the…...
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: Fossil Flowers of Ancient Lianas Preserved in Amber Reveal the Evolution of Tropical Rainforests
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (468+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:52 Amber-preserved flowers from Southeast China show that lianas were already an established component of tropical rainforests 15 million years ago, during the Miocene. Researchers from China, France, Germany and…...
Scientists Bring a Gal??pagos Plant Back From the Brink of Extinction
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (510+ words) The Galápagos snapdragon, once close to disappearing, is showing encouraging signs of recovery through a long-term partnership between the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápagos National Park Directorate. For decades, the Galápagos snapdragon was known from little more than a…...
Date seeds dug out of Herod's fortress at Masada and three other Judean desert sites sat in storage at room temperature for decades, and when a team soaked thirty-three of them and potted thirty-two, six grew into living palms whose seed shells date to between the fourth century BCE and the second century CE once a correction for modern carbon absorbed during growth is applied
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (291+ words) Seven ancient Judean date seeds have been germinated and genotyped. That the seeds grew is not what the one critic to respond on the paper's own page contests. What he questions is whether the radiocarbon dates record when they grew....
Genomics shows history matters more than age for ancient trees
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1158+ words) Genome sequencing of the rare Chinese swamp cypress shows that an ancient tree's genetic value depends on its history, not on how long it has lived. Conservation planners tend to treat every ancient tree as a genetic vault. The oldest…...
Rain pools in 150 million-year-old dinosaur footprints
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (270+ words) in Colorado The Weather Channel Rain pools in 150 million-year-old dinosaur footprints in Colorado Footprints left by a dinosaur walking through present-day Colorado about 150 million years ago were recently filled with rain, creating puddles. Videographer Barry Stevenson captured the footage along…...