An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Tree of Life,' a Sitka spruce in Olympic National Park, is nearing the end of its life on the Washington coast.

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Each lizard is unique. Some have longer legs, others stronger jaws, and all behave slightly differently. The differences ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

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One of the hallmarks of a great RPG is a well-designed system for acquiring new skills and powering up a character. In most games, this is represented as a skill tree, which allows the player to ...

Tree planting can be the most cost-effective way of removing carbon as long as careful choices are made about which type of trees to plant and where. Governments worldwide have committed to ...

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Rotting logs turn out to be vital to forest biodiversity and recycling organic matter Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Though no one may be around to hear when a tree falls in the forest ...

This valuable study uses a massive and long-term experimental data set to provide solid evidence on how tree diversity affects host-parasitoid communities of insects in forests. The work will be of ...