All Articles Tagged As: plants
Freeze-dried terrestrial vegetation and insects help to reveal the ecological legacy of a unique global climate transition
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 | Ancient farmers were growing sunflowers in Mexico more than 4,000 years before the Spaniards arrived ...> Full Article |
 | Logs found four feet under current road tell us about early travel in the eastern U.S. ...> Full Article |
 | Earliest signs of maize as staple food found after spreading south from Mexican homeland ...> Full Article |
 | Paleontologist makes discovery using fossils excavated in South Australian outback ...> Full Article |
 | A Brigham Young University geographer studying timbers from the Salt Lake Tabernacle concludes those old walls can talk, and they tell a new tale of pioneer hardship. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists from the University of Bonn are researching which plants giant dinosaurs could have lived off more than 100 million years ago. They want to find out how the dinosaurs were able to become as large as they did. In actual fact such gigantic animals should not have existed. The results of the research have now been published in the journal 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B'. ...> Full Article |
 | The collapse of honeybee colonies across North America is focusing attention on the honeybees' vital role in the survival of agricultural crops, and a new study by University of Florida and Indiana University Southeast researchers shows insect pollinators have likely played a key role in the evolution and success of flowering plants for nearly 100 million years. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers have discovered important information about the origin of flowering plants and how they reproduce. ...> Full Article |
Long before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Florida's coast and left remains offering stark evidence that the arrival of humans can permanently change - and eliminate - life on what had been isolated islands, says a University of Florida researcher.
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 | Dennis Myllyla thought he'd struck a fine bargain with the Michigan Department of Transportation. MDOT would get fill for nearby highway construction by dredging a pond on his farm near Arnheim, Mich., and Myllyla would get the pond. ...> Full Article |
Research offers new insights into the world's oldest trees.
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 | Cornell archaeologists are rewriting history with the help of tree rings from 900-year-old trees, wood found on ancient buildings and through analysis of the isotopes (especially radiocarbon dating) and chemistry they can find in that wood. ...> Full Article |
Cashew nut fossils have been identified in 47-million year old lake sediment in Germany, revealing that the cashew genus Anacardium was once distributed in Europe, remote from its modern "native" distribution in Central and South America. It was previously proposed that Anacardium and its African sister genus, Fegimanra, diverged from their common ancestor when the landmasses of Africa and South America separated. However, groundbreaking new data in the October issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences indicate that Europe may be an important biogeographic link between Africa and the New World.
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