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6 天之前 · Botanist Pablo Guerrero has been visiting Atacama cacti all his life. They’re not adapting well to a drier climate, booming mining and plant collection. By Rebecca Dzombak December 5, 2024
Burrowing birds create pockets of plant life in a desert landscape ...
2019年10月8日 · Burrowing birds create pockets of rich plant life in a desert landscape. Mounds of sand dug out by nest-digging birds are microhabitats where seeds can germinate
Meet a scientist tracking cactus poaching in the Atacama Desert
2024年12月5日 · Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...
A volcanic surge helped sauropods rule over Jurassic herbivores ...
2020年11月17日 · Volcanic activity may have altered plant life and ushered in rise of dinosaur giants Newly discovered Bagualia alba (illustrated) is one of the oldest true sauropod fossils ever discovered, dating ...
Farming on Mars will be a lot harder than ‘The Martian’ made it …
2020年11月18日 · In the film The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) survives being stranded on the Red Planet by farming potatoes in Martian dirt fertilized with feces.. Future Mars astronauts ...
The screams of thirsty plants may prompt some moths to lay eggs …
2024年12月11日 · Ultrasonic thirsty plant clicks were discovered in 2023 by colleagues of Rya Seltzer, an entomologist at Tel Aviv University (SN: 3/30/23). She and her team wondered if moths — which could ...
How alien can a planet be and still support life? - Science News
2016年4月19日 · Life-supporting liquid water could hide under the surface, for example, inside Jupiter’s icy moon Europa (SN: 10/4/14, p. 10). And any subterranean life, which typically wouldn’t alter the ...
Plants don’t have feelings and aren’t conscious, a biologist argues
2019年8月12日 · Sophisticated animal brains evolved in part to help an organism catch a meal and avoid becoming one, Taiz says. But plants are rooted to the ground and rely on sunlight for energy, a sedentary ...
New Guinea has more known plant species than any island in the …
2020年8月18日 · Here, all of the plant species are separated into one of seven life-forms: trees, herbs, epiphytes, shrubs, climbers, palms and tree ferns. Each box in the grids below the illustrations represents ...
Mathematical Lives of Plants - Science News
2007年7月13日 · Life A 407-million-year-old plant’s leaves skipped the usual Fibonacci spirals By Skyler Ware July 4, 2023. More Stories from Science News on Math. Math