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The Flower That Stole A Fig’s Identity (opens the original)
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To discover a new species is one of the great thrills of biology. But to find a new species that does something both unique and utterly unexpected is something few biologists get to experience.For Thai botanist Aroonrat Kidyoo, the journey to such a moment began in 2018 in the evergreen forest of Huai Nam Dang National Park in Thailand’s Chiang Mai province. She and her partner and fellow researcher Manit Kidyoo were searching for plants in the milkweed subfamily Asclepiadoideae when they spotte
The Banyan With An Invisible Trunk And A Hidden Past (opens the original)
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Centuries have passed since people first gathered beneath the great banyan tree at Munger in the Indian state of Bihar. Its sprawling canopy and myriad prop roots have made it a cultural and historical landmark. But until recently, nobody knew how old the tree really was.The common assumption was that it had been planted beside a building used by local rulers, the Burra Bungalow, whose architecture suggested that it dated from the late Mughal–early British period, roughly 300 to 350 years ago. T
The Fig Tree Above the Whirlpool (opens the original)
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All his men were dead, hundreds of them. Some were slain in combat, others eaten alive by a monstrous cyclops, speared like fish by giants, or drowned at sea in the storm of a god’s wrath. Now Odysseus was alone and adrift in a violent sea, clinging to a makeshift raft fashioned from the wreckage of his sunken ship. Waves carried him into a narrow channel hemmed by sheer cliffs. Peril surrounded him.Subscribe nowIn a cave on one side lurked Scylla, a fearsome sea monster with six heads on long n
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