Butterflies do all kinds of cool things. They fly, pollinate plants, and slurp nectar out of flowers with tongues as long as their bodies. They also help rediscover plants that have been missing since 1888! Himesh Dilruwan Jayasinghe was chasing a small leopard butterfly (named…
Elephants strip off pieces of it for lunch, popping it into their mouths like giant potato chips. The southern ground hornbill makes its house inside of it, turning it into a cozy living room. Humans use the fiber from its bark as a material for making…
Biologist Nilanthi Rajapakse (pictured below) of the Department of Wildlife Conservation in Sri Lanka discovered a new plant species with years of careful observation and field work. Nilanthi Rajapakse. Image courtesy of the Department of Wildlife Conservation. Mongabay writer Malaka Rodrigo explains how Nilanthi Rajapakse discovered…
Today’s guest: the coastal redwood (Also known as the coast redwood or California redwood.) Sofia: Hi, I’m Sofia Ceiba, and on this episode of Talking to Plants we are going to meet the coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). We are going live to Redwood National Park to…
Plant research report, exploring ecosystems lesson.