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A small raptor alighted for a few minutes yesterday on the top of a tree in my yard. The bird perched up in the crown, on…
A small raptor alighted for a few minutes yesterday on the top of a tree in my yard. The bird perched up in the crown, on…
Image: Wikimedia Commons. There are few more-iconic Earth-history events than the tale of the dinosaurs being wiped out after…
When a meteor impacted with the Earth 65 million years ago, it did more than jus...
Hace 66 millones de años, un objeto cósmico rocoso de 10 kilómetros de diámetro impactó contra la península de Yucatán, cerca…
After the Chicxulub meteorite, more than half the plant species in temperate North America perished along with the dinosaurs…
According to a new study of fossilized leaves of angiosperms (flowering plants excluding conifers) published in the journal…
Figure 1: (A) "Dryophyllum" subfalcatum, (B) unknown nonmonocot, (C) "Ficus" planicostata, (D) "Populus" nebrascensisA new…
Plants and…
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about plant extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, human tolerance to HIV and control…
Harsh conditions after the dino-killing meteor impact favored fast-growing plants, nudging forests toward a new pecking order