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The University of Iowa has transformed a once-empty space near the Hillcrest Residence Hall into the state's largest Miyawaki ...
Scientists added descriptive terms to the existing general Indigenous frog and reptile names to make them specific.
A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late ...
It is not considered a traditional subalpine tree species, which inhabit the most extreme high elevations. Yet, Safford recorded Jeffrey pines as high as 12,657 feet elevation. That is 1,860 feet ...
Ontario residents may be thinking about strategically pruning trees on their property. But if you have oak trees, you should avoid pruning them from now until November, Ontario’s Invasive Species ...
Many of those people were impacted themselves. They had trees fall on their houses, on their cars. Their properties were littered with debris and trees. But it was really amazing what they did to ...
Lightning is often seen as a killer, leaving behind destruction and death of trees — but one tropical species has evolved to use the force of nature to its benefit. The tonka bean tree ...
This groundbreaking achievement marks the first de-extinction of a species, reviving the dire wolf after 12,500 years. The pups exhibit distinctive features of the extinct creature, opening doors ...
President Donald Trump replaced a chopped-down 200-year-old tree on the South Lawn of the White House with a sapling he dubbed a "MAGAnolia" after his "Make America Great Again" supporters.
A new study shows that a tall tropical tree species called Dipteryx oleifera has evolved to become 68% more likely to be jolted by a bolt of lightning. Scientists who studied six years of data in ...
The genomes of the two species don't quite align, particularly in certain regions. African apes, our next closest kin on the primate ancestral tree, diverged about 10.6 to 10.9 million years ago ...