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Scientists discover pristine ancient forest frozen in time in Rocky MountainsA melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic landscapes and climate change.
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'Rising temperatures melted corpses out of the Antarctic permafrost': The rise of one of Earth's most iconic trees in an uncertain worldAs the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved in half as North America inched westward.
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'Alien plant' fossil discovered near Utah ghost town doesn't belong to any known plant families, living or extinctFossilized plant remains discovered near a Utah ghost town have stumped scientists, who are unable to link them to any modern or extinct plants.
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Squirting cucumbers thicken and stiffen to eject seeds with 'remarkable speed and precision,' study findsSquirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, but exactly how they do it has long remained a mystery.
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Where did the 1st seeds come from?From delicate dandelions to mighty oak trees, millions of plants use seeds to reproduce. But where did the first seeds come from?
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Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggestsThe clonal quaking aspen known as Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old.
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How is paper made from trees?Plant-based paper has been used for thousands of years, but exactly how is it created from trees?
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Pando: The world's largest tree and heaviest living organismPando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats mean the plant is now in decline.
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Deep below the Arctic Ocean, some plants have adapted to photosynthesize in almost near darknessPlants found to photosynthesize 160 feet beneath the surface of the Arctic Ocean offer tantalizing prospects for the future.
