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'Ptree' is an interactive tree of life that allows you to trace the lineage of animals, plants, bacteria, and viruses.
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (397+ words) Ptree is a website where you can navigate through the classification of organisms by clicking on them, and learn about various characteristics such as their diet and lifespan. I tried out this interactive Tree of Life, which allows you to…...
Beneath Mount Wingen in New South Wales, a coal seam has smouldered for an estimated 5,500 to 6,000 years, advancing south at roughly a metre a year. Its first documented European observers in 1828 mistook the smoking ground for volcanic activity; today a walking track leads visitors to the site of the world’s oldest known continuously burning coal-seam fire.
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (930+ words) Burning Mountain is not a volcano but a buried coal fire, reconstructed from kilometres of heat-altered ground and still moving south beneath a New South Wales reserve....
A giant Pompeii-scale eruption buried an ancient Andes landscape and preserved it for 22 million years
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (1364+ words) A 21.9-million-year-old volcanic blanket preserved clues showing part of the Andes may have risen slowly for millions of years. (CREDIT: Frances J. Cooper) A volcanic eruption of extraordinary size buried an entire Andean landscape nearly 22 million years ago. Instead of erasing…...
Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil
5+ hour, 44+ min ago (620+ words) 620 CKRM Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is horticulture’s best-known living fossil. Abundant and cosmopolitan in the fossil record extending back 270 million years, the tree was thought long extinct by Western scientists. Then in 1690 botanist Engelbert Kaempfer…...
42: The Answer to Almost Everything - Can We Stop Mass Extinction? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
9+ hour, 56+ min ago (561+ words) Can We Control Our Hormones? Stress levels, sleep, sexuality: Hormones in our bodies wield enormous power over us. They control us, but can we control them? Can We Stop Mass Extinction? How Do You Become a Genius? Albert Einstein, Isaac…...
This Ibex Went Extinct, Was Cloned, Then Went Extinct Again
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (471+ words) Once abundant in the Pyrenees mountains, Pyrenean ibexes went extinct in 2000 due to centuries of overhunting, habitat fragmentation, and intraspecies competition. The Pyrenean ibex was a subspecies of the Iberian ibex. Known locally as bucardo, this large and imposing-looking wild…...
Ancient Fossil Carpel-Like Organs Push Back Flowering Plant Origins
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (83+ words) Bioengineer.org For now, the specimen rests in the type collection under catalogue number PB206132, available for scrutiny by other researchers. The open-access publication ensures that the images and reconstructions can be independently assessed, an important step given how consequential the…...
Ancient wildfires may have inspired one of humanity’s biggest inventions
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (880+ words) Ancient wildfires may have inspired pottery by showing early farmers how fire could transform ordinary clay into a hard, durable material. Long before anyone deliberately shaped a bowl, a stretch of ancient wildfires may have quietly handed early farmers the…...
Extinction is forever | Paleontology
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (54+ words) K.J. Genualdo • about 3 hours ago Zach Sweat • about 2 hours ago Zach Sweat • 13 days ago Zach Sweat • 16 days ago Phillip Hamilton • 8 months ago Uploaded by KimmyDude Sep 10, 2026 at 01:55PM EDT Resolution: (1602px x 2048px) File size: 480 KB 11 views (11 from today) extinction, paleo art, art...
Ancient Charcoal Reveals Wildfires Once Burned Near the South Pole
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