Two new lodges are hoping to help protect pristine pockets of a country where the unique wildlife is under threat ...

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As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

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In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the ...

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Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

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Scientists have grown an ancient seed from a cave in the Judean Desert into a tree — and it could belong to a locally-extinct ...