The team sequenced the plant’s DNA and compared it with other specimens in the California Academy of Sciences’ herbarium. The ...
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Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.
Leonard Hobbs was born in small Carbon, Wyoming, in 1895 and grew up to help transform aviation, designing one of the most ...
The scientists used their data to chart where and when plant species emerged or disappeared across Siberia and Alaska.
Like most gardeners, I have favorite plants I’ve been growing for years and will continue to grow, like fragrant and tasty Big Boy tomatoes, wide Romano-type Italian flat beans, climbing zucchini and ...
For 2025, 20 plants — seven edible and 13 ornamental — have been named national or regional winners.
Cleanup of the former Northrop-Grumman facility in Calverton should be taken over by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and made a priority cleanup site under the superfund ...
For nearly 50 years, researchers from the U.S. National Park System hadn’t found any new plants—but that changed with the discovery of a fuzzy sunflower. After a chance sighting in 2024, the “wooly ...
With the Yankees preparing to play their first game of spring training, the owner announced that players can wear ...
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An entirely new plant species, known as a "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park in Texas. This is the first new plant genus and species to have been discovered in a U.S.