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Yellow and black bee on yellow flower in a filed of yellow flowers during daytime.

Why we should love dandelions

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Why we should love dandelions, post on Nature and Bees on 360 on History. Dandelions are a lifeline for bees on the brink.

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Endless forms, most beautiful — Darwin and On the Origin of Species

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Charles Darwin's trip aboard the HMS Beagle helped him to understand the diversity of life on Earth & led to his theory of evolution via natural selection.

Steatoda nobilis Hampshire England Source: Brenda Avery Wikimedia

Watch this spider capture and eat a much larger pygmy shrew

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Watch this spider capture and eat a much larger pygmy shrew in Southern England. It was captured by scientists who had been observing such behaviour in spiders.

On the island of Crete, in the village of Vouves, stands an olive tree estimated to be 3,000 years old. Hearty and resilient, “the Olive Tree of Vouves” still bears fruit today.

3,000 year old tree that still bears fruit

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Slime mold Wolf's Milk

Slime mold amoeba Wolf’s Milk (Lycogala epidendrum)

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Video Episode 21 | Earth’s Mass Extinctions

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Earth's mass extinctions were Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic & Cretaceous which killed the dinosaurs. Now we are on to the 6th one called the Holocene.

Upward image of a group of trees from below. The trees rise up towards the sky to converge at the top. By Arnaud Mesureur on Unsplash

What was the key to the spread of plant life on land?

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YSE-led research has discovered the answer to a 100-year-old paleontology mystery — how early plants emerged from their watery habitats to grow on land through changes to their vascular systems.

Sugar maple with dark orange leaves

Podcast Episode 55 l The Colours of Autumn and Falling of Leaves

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Why do leaves fall and what is the reason we can see the purples, reds, oranges, yellows, and browns in winter? We talk about the colours of autumn and the falling leaves that precede winter.

A male fly trying to mate with a female corpse held in place by a dab of Vaseline. The fungus has grown out of the rear body segment and is visible as large white patches from which spores are ejected. Credit: Filippo Castelucci University of Copenhagen

Zombie fly fungus compels male flies to copulate with corpses

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A clever fungus survives by 'bewitching' male flies into mating with with female fly corpses. The longer the fly has been dead the more attractive it becomes to the males according to a new study led ...