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The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...
A rare plant species that vanished from botanical records for over a century has been rediscovered in the rainforests of Chiang Rai province, marking a significant find for Thailand's biodiversity ...
A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the Gantangqing site in Southwest China's Yunnan province, presenting the earliest ...
Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...
Toxic and poisonous plants grow in Michigan, including giant hogweed, poison ivy, poison oak, wild parsnip, poison sumac and poison hemlock. Contact with the plants can cause skin irritation ...
Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many natural plant products are ancestry-specific and occur only in certain plant families, sometimes only in a single species ...
Cryopreserving plants, animals to support endangered species around the globe The CryoBioBank at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden stores nearly 300 species of plants and about 90 species of ...
The botany team at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is at it again. In 2022, Selby Gardens botanist Dr. John L. Clark was also part of a team that discovered a new plant species called Amalophyllon ...
A bill gaining traction in Texas would outlaw several native plants, including the popular mountain laurel.
That means she addresses the proliferation of invasive species, works to deter hungry deer from chowing down on certain species and may even remove some plants to ensure the rare ones can thrive.
Whether it’s Phragmites, crabgrass or tumbleweeds, these unwelcome plants are causing major problems across the state of Utah.
Researchers have discovered a new plant species in Jiangxi province, expanding scientific knowledge of the plant kingdom and boosting biodiversity conservation efforts in the country.