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Clinging To The Side Of A Cliff, This Tree Is The Last Of Its Kind. Scientists Are Trying To Change Thatarticle image
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Clinging To The Side Of A Cliff, This Tree Is The Last Of Its Kind. Scientists Are Trying To Change That

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The World's Heaviest Pine Cone Weighs The Same As A Pallas's Cat, But The Tallest Measures More Than Half A MeterA Coulter pine tree with large hanging brown cone

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The World's Heaviest Pine Cone Weighs The Same As A Pallas's Cat, But The Tallest Measures More Than Half A MeterA Coulter pine tree with large hanging brown cone
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The World's Heaviest Pine Cone Weighs The Same As A Pallas's Cat, But The Tallest Measures More Than Half A Meter

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The Ice Age Squirrel That Enabled A Plant’s Resurrection 31,800 Years Laterillustration of the ice age squirrel, it's brown standing in front of a small burrow

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The Ice Age Squirrel That Enabled A Plant’s Resurrection 31,800 Years Laterillustration of the ice age squirrel, it's brown standing in front of a small burrow
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The Ice Age Squirrel That Enabled A Plant’s Resurrection 31,800 Years Later

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Squirting Cucumbers, World’s Least SFW Fruit, Caught Exploding On CameraSquirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium)
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Squirting Cucumbers, World’s Least SFW Fruit, Caught Exploding On Camera

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Fast Leaf Hypothesis: Scientists Discover Sneaky Way Trees Use Geometry To Hog NutrientsLeaves falling in fall.

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Fast Leaf Hypothesis: Scientists Discover Sneaky Way Trees Use Geometry To Hog NutrientsLeaves falling in fall.
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Fast Leaf Hypothesis: Scientists Discover Sneaky Way Trees Use Geometry To Hog Nutrients

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People Are Just Now Learning Why Shotgun Shells Sometimes Contain SeedsShotgun shells.

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Seeds Discovered In Natural “Time Capsules” In South Africa Can Still Grow After 130 YearsView of Table Mountain surrounded by yellow pin cushion protea bushes (Leucospermum muirii) and green fynbos, Cape Town, South Africa

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Seeds Discovered In Natural “Time Capsules” In South Africa Can Still Grow After 130 YearsView of Table Mountain surrounded by yellow pin cushion protea bushes (Leucospermum muirii) and green fynbos, Cape Town, South Africa
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Seeds Discovered In Natural “Time Capsules” In South Africa Can Still Grow After 130 Years

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Over 14,000 New Seed Samples Added To Svalbard's "Doomsday" VaultEntrance to the global seed vault in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

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Over 14,000 New Seed Samples Added To Svalbard's "Doomsday" VaultEntrance to the global seed vault in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
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Over 14,000 New Seed Samples Added To Svalbard's "Doomsday" Vault

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No Eggs? A Seed In Your Pantry Works Just As Well In Cake Recipesan egg splatted on the floor

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No Eggs? A Seed In Your Pantry Works Just As Well In Cake Recipesan egg splatted on the floor
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No Eggs? A Seed In Your Pantry Works Just As Well In Cake Recipes

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Scientists Resurrect A 1,000-Year-Old Biblical Tree From Ancient Seed Found In Judean CaveCave in Judean desert.

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Scientists Resurrect A 1,000-Year-Old Biblical Tree From Ancient Seed Found In Judean CaveCave in Judean desert.
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Scientists Resurrect A 1,000-Year-Old Biblical Tree From Ancient Seed Found In Judean Cave

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Explosive Study Reveals How Squirting Cucumber Engorges And Erupts, Shooting Seeds 10 MetersA still showing the jet ejected from a squirting cucumber, which carries its seeds distances of up to 10m away from the mother plant.

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Explosive Study Reveals How Squirting Cucumber Engorges And Erupts, Shooting Seeds 10 MetersA still showing the jet ejected from a squirting cucumber, which carries its seeds distances of up to 10m away from the mother plant.
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Explosive Study Reveals How Squirting Cucumber Engorges And Erupts, Shooting Seeds 10 Meters

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Scientists Resurrect 145-Year-Old Shipwreck Seeds. Now, They Want To Make Whiskeyseeds from a shipwreck in beakers with a clear fluid being held up by a gloved hand

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Scientists Resurrect 145-Year-Old Shipwreck Seeds. Now, They Want To Make Whiskeyseeds from a shipwreck in beakers with a clear fluid being held up by a gloved hand
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Scientists Resurrect 145-Year-Old Shipwreck Seeds. Now, They Want To Make Whiskey

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Forest Health Depends On The Personality Of Small Mammalsflop-eared mouse on a mossy log

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Forest Health Depends On The Personality Of Small Mammals

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People Are Talking About "Seed Cycling": Is It Actually Good For You?watercolor stripes in shades of red on a white background with a full moon in the top right hand corner, overlaid with four images of spoons containing different types of seeds against random cuttings of newsprint

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People Are Talking About "Seed Cycling": Is It Actually Good For You?watercolor stripes in shades of red on a white background with a full moon in the top right hand corner, overlaid with four images of spoons containing different types of seeds against random cuttings of newsprint
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Those White Dots On Strawberries Aren’t Strawberry SeedsLoads of strawberries in a bowl.

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Those White Dots On Strawberries Aren’t Strawberry SeedsLoads of strawberries in a bowl.
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Those White Dots On Strawberries Aren’t Strawberry Seeds

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