Stories Related to Trilobites: One Of Nature’s Smallest Flowering Plants Can Survive Inside Of A Duck

VERONIQUE GREENWOOD, NY Times: Science
Fri, 12/14/2018 - 7:32am

If one duckweed lands where a bird relieves itself, it’s capable of eventually creating a dense mat of duckweeds where there were none before.

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