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Sea Slug Is Part Plant
This is so cool!
Sea slug has taken genes from algae it eats, allowing it to photosynthesize like a plant ( Read more... ) -
Ridiculously Awesome
Fire Tornado with hundreds of tumbleweeds.
Interestingly enough, the classic tumbleweed isn't even an American native - it's an invasive Russian plant, first described from Australia. But the tumbleweed method of dispersing its seeds is shared by many plants.
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Lethal Megapinecones!
Bunya Pine begins dropping lethal, 10kg cones the size of watermelons | News.com.au -- [For the first time in 15 years, a certain pine tree in the Victorian town of Warragul has begun dropping pine cones. But apart from the fact it rarely happens, these are no ordinary pine cones. They're giant, people-killing pine cones.]
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Albino redwoods
Pale ghosts that hide amid their gigantic siblings, only a few dozen albino redwood trees are known to exist. They are genetic mutants that lack the chlorophyll needed for photosynthesis. But how and why they survive is a scientific mystery. QUEST ventures into the deep canopy of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park near Felton, California to track ( Read more... ) -
Busy Bees Use Flower Petals For Nest Wallpaper
I was visiting one of my favorite crafting blogs and they featured this unusual looking cocoon in one of their entries:
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Not so wtf as cool.
Giant glider seeds
Unfortunately I'm not sure how to embed the BBC's videos, which is the best part. So you'll just have to see it for yourself.
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