Now, scientists are revealing ever more extreme examples of this giant-genome phenomenon even ... genome of any living organism in an unassuming fern found in New Caledonia, an island chain ...

Somewhere beneath the forest canopy was the African giant swallowtail: the largest butterfly to appear ... no deterrent to scientists whose faces light up at the sight of a rare fern or a praying ...

An old growth redwood forest is nature's cathedral. Light filters through the giant trees bathing the ferns ... Mosses, lichens, fern mats, even other trees all grow in the canopy soil.

Tmesipteris oblanceolata, a fern growing in a forest on an island east of Australia ... but they are scattered in a giant genome that totals 40 billion pairs of DNA letters — 13 times ...

They spend a lot of time with their dad Tim Billo in Seward Park, a fragment of old-growth forest on the edge of ... and she was the first to notice the sword fern die-off. Eilís O'Neill ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries sends a warning about giant salvinia, an exotic fern and invasive species that is a major threat to Louisiana’s ...

A giant floating fern that carpets waterways with thick, leafy mats has become a major problem in Alabama waterways. It’s called Giant Salvinia. “Nobody wants it,” said Monica Allen ...