Giant cladoxylopsid trees resolve the enigma of the Earth's earliest forest stumps at Gilboa
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An intact crown belonging to the cladoxylopsid Wattieza (Pseudisporochnales) and its attachment to Eospermatopteris trunk and base has allowed the reconstruction of a tall, tree-fern-like plant with a trunk bearing large branches in longitudinal ranks. They produced abundant litter, indicating the potential for terrestrial carbon accumulation and detritus-based arthropod fauna by Middle Devonian period.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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Extreme culture: From acid mine drainage to the bowels of the Earth
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Diana Northup, a microbiologist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and a member of the Subsurface Life in Mineral Environments, is attempting to culture cave bacteria in her laboratory, which is usually found on the falls of underground caverns.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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