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An odd rock found in central Mississippi is rewriting the state’s Ice Age history — and even calling into question some long-held scientific assumptions. It’s a piece of petrified wood, but that’s not ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defense in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from south-eastern Ireland. Plants can protect their wood from infection and water loss by ...

On an expedition to the Central Andean Plateau, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and colleagues were astounded to find a huge fossil tree buried in the cold, grassy ...

SINCE 1913 the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines of Canada has been carrying out, under the direction of Mr. S. C. Ells, an extensive investigation of the bituminous sands (McMurray Tar Sands) ...

We shouldn't just be talking about cars, stoves, or furnaces, but the bigger concept: The age of fire is over. Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English ...

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An ancient mangrove forest with trees that towered up to 130 feet high has been discovered over 20 million years after a volcanic mudflow smothered it in what is now Panama, a new study reveals.

Deborah Woodcock has received funding from the American Philosophical Society, the National Science Foundation, and National Geographic. Herb Meyer has been supported in this project as an employee of ...

An international team of scientists, co-led by Dr Carla J. Harper, Assistant Professor in Botany in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity, has discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defence ...