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First Photos of China's 298-Million-Year-Old Buried Forest

Chinese Fossilized Forest

These are the first photos of some of the countless treasures found in the extraordinary 298-million-year-old forest discovered under coal mine in Wuda, Inner Mongolia, China.

 

New Life, From an Arctic Flower That Died 32,000 Years Ago

Arctic Plant

A living plant has been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, making it the oldest plant by far that has ever been grown from ancient tissue.

 

Hundreds of plants, animals up for new protections

The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melodic golden-winged warbler and slow-moving gopher tortoise, to the slimy American eel and tiny Texas kangaroo rat....

 

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