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Hura crepitans combines a trunk covered in venomous spikes with mechanical capsules that explode like pistol shots to spread its offspring.
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The wood wide web: a natural internet connecting entire forests
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The importance of photosynthesis and the carbon cycle
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In the peaks of Borneo, this plant abandoned hunting insects to feed on treeshrew feces using a laxative nectar.
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How a self-taught watchmaker raised the world's largest masonry vault without using a single wooden centering frame
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How this East African rodent harvests one of the deadliest botanical toxins on the planet and stores it in hairs designed like capillary sponges.
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Weighing over 6,000 tons and sharing an underground root system, this plant clone in Utah is the heaviest individual organism on Earth.
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In the heart of the Amazon lives a bird whose crop functions like an ox's rumen and whose chicks climb trees with prehistoric limbs.
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Boquila trifoliolata defies traditional botany by transforming its leaves to mimic completely different tree species.
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Beyond fungi: The invisible network of survival and direct nutrition among flora
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Cloud forests are unique ecosystems that have evolved to condense atmospheric moisture, generating their own water supply and sheltering extraordinary biodiversity.