Interesting Engineering on MSN

47 million-year-old ‘alien plant’ fossil found in Utah is one of its kind on Earth

Newly discovered fossils matched up with a mysterious “alien plant” species found in 1969 and brought it to clearer life.
Inverse

Earth Plants Can Grow On These Alien Worlds, A New Simulation Study Suggests

Earth plants could thrive under the light of an alien sun, according to a recent experiment. A team of astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under ...
The Conversation

Lost fynbos seeds from underground ‘time capsules’ in South Africa can grow again – new study

Karen Joan Esler receives funding from the Centre for Invasion Biology, the Water Research Commission and Anglo American (Anglo American Nature Positive Grant). Tony Rebelo received funding from IUCN ...
IFLScience

“Alien Plant” Identified From 47-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is Even Weirder Than We Thought

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...