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Plants may affect the effect of wildfires
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rising temperatures may lead to more tinder-dry vegetation, but that doesn't mean there will be a higher risk for wildfires in a particular area.
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First orchid fossil puts showy blooms at some 80 million years old
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Aug 29, 2007 |
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Biologists at Harvard University have identified the ancient fossilized remains of a pollen-bearing bee as the first hint of orchids in the fossil record, a find they say suggests orchids are old enough to ...
New research provides better understanding of the birds and the bees
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Dec 18, 2007 |
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Researchers from Indiana University Southeast and the University of Florida have discovered important information about the origin of flowering plants and how they reproduce.
New research explains orchids' sexual trickery
Dec 17, 2009 |
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A new study reveals the reason why orchids use sexual trickery to lure insect pollinators. The study, published in the January issue of The American Naturalist, finds that sexual deception in orchids leads to a more effici ...
'Living fossil' tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the ...
The first neotropical rainforest was home of the Titanoboa
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest ...
Algae and pollen grains provide evidence of remarkably warm period in Antarctica's history
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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For Sophie Warny, LSU assistant professor of geology and geophysics and curator at the LSU Museum of Natural Science, years of patience in analyzing Antarctic samples with low fossil recovery finally led to a scientific breakthrough. ...
Probing Question: Why are flowers beautiful?
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Jan 24, 2008 |
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In the 1930s, American artist Georgia O'Keefe wrote: "What is my experience of the flower if it is not color?" O'Keefe is best known for her vibrantly colorful close-ups of petals and stamens on large canvases.
Well-traveled wasps provide hope for vanishing species
Nov 09, 2009 |
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They may only be 1.5mm in size, but the tiny wasps that pollinate fig trees can travel over 160km in less than 48 hours, according to research from scientists at the University of Leeds. The fig wasps are transporting ...
Bones of T. rex to make museum debut in Oregon
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Dec 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex will make its museum debut at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River.
Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, ...
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