Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of electricity. The tonka bean tree, aka Dipteryx oleifera ...

A new tree species, Tessmannia princeps, has been identified in Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains. Characterized by its massive size and slow growth, some trees are estimated to be up to 3,000 years old.

You’d have thought scientists would know about all of the extremely large tree species out there by now given that they’re, y’know, frickin’ huge. But as the discovery of a brand new ...

Apr. 1, 2025 — A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Human activities are significantly impacting global biodiversity, leading to a decline in species numbers and altering species community compositions. A ...

Researchers in Tanzania have unveiled a previously unknown species of gigantic tree, Tessmannia princeps, towering over the tropical rainforests of the Udzungwa Mountains. The discovery adds to ...

Their findings, published in Phytotaxa, reveal a previously unknown species of tree, which they have named Tessmannia princeps. This species was found in the mountainous rainforests of Tanzania ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old ... era and so it remains a mystery how she fits into the evolutionary tree of life. The small roadside quarry where Professor Gabbott found ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

Rainforest in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, where researchers identified a new tree species. Credit: Marc Veraart / CC BY 2.0 A group of plant scientists has discovered a rare new tree species deep ...

a prejudice or bias in favour of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species. Speciesism is often condemned as the same sort of bigotry as racism or ...

My answer changes every day. Because there are so many steps along the way to de-extinction, there is no particular species that is an ideal candidate for being brought back to life. The best ...