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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."
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Even trees 'hold their breath' to avoid harmful wildfire smoke, research findsTrees don't like to breathe wildfire smoke, either.
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Massive sinkholes in China hold 'heavenly' forests with plants adapted for harsh life undergroundPlants 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.
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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.
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World's loneliest tree species can't reproduce without a mate. So AI is looking for one hidden in the forests of South Africa.A single specimen of an ancient tree species was found in 1895. Now scientists are using AI to find it a mate.
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See stunning photos of the Atacama Desert — the driest on Earth — blooming in winter for 1st time in a decade"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom.
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Rainforest of super trees descended from lost supercontinent Gondwana being created in AustraliaProject seeks to protect ancient tree lineages that have survived from a time before Earth’s continents broke apart.
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Shark Bay: Home to Earth's largest plant — an immortal, self-cloning seagrass meadow stretching 112 milesA 77-square-mile seagrass meadow at the bottom of Shark Bay in Western Australia is both Earth's largest plant and largest clone.
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Near-indestructible moss can survive gamma rays and liquid nitrogenThis little moss withstands deadly blasts of radiation, extreme cold and dehydration — and could probably survive on Mars.
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