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The 300 year old hollow tree still lives healthy
The 300-year-old camphor tree, 10 meters tall in Jiangxi Province, China still lives healthy even though its trunk is hollowed out with only two shells.
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Million years old bacteria are resistant to 70% of modern antibiotics
The ancient bacterium Paenibacillus was discovered in the cave Lechuguilla, New Mexico, USA with resistance to 70% of modern antibiotics.
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Successfully duplicated 20-storey trees, helping protect the environment
Facing the prospect of all the ancient trees in the world being wiped out, scientists went on to clone one of the oldest plants.
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Can dig Ngoc Linh ginseng 100 years old
While going to the forest, a villager in Quang Nam discovered and dug a root of Ngoc Linh ginseng weighing about 1 kg, which is over 100 years old.
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Ancient 100 years of crossing the sea with barges
An ancient golden incense tree 40 meters high and weighs 650 tons is transported from Tsikhisdziri village along the Black Sea coast with barges to a new park in Georgia.
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The hundred-year reishi mushroom grows under ancient roots
Ganoderma that weighs more than 5kg is found on the border between Que Dong and Xi Lang districts in Hunan, China.
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10 trees have a longer life expectancy than human civilization
Many ancient trees have a longer lifespan than human civilization, surviving many geological and climatic changes on Earth.
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Find out that spiders know to ride prey waves like old water gods
Australian scientists have recently discovered a very special new spider species called Dolomedes briangreenei.
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The 10 most exotic plants on Earth
The natural world around us is always full of interesting things. This article would like to send you a list of the most unusual plants in the world.
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Bacteria more than three billion years old hide in the cave
Fossils in Africa show that the ancient bacteria have found deadly UV-hiding rocks in the Taihu era when life began to form on Earth.
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America will recreate giant giant trees
Last week, US environmentalists climbed a 2,000-year-old cypress, as tall as a nine-story building, called the Lady of Freedom in central Florida.
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Two-thirds of the world's population is infected with sexually transmitted viruses
The latest statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that 67% of the world's population under 50 years old is infected with herpes virus.
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Revived ancient virus 30,000 years old
French scientists are cautious when trying to revive a frozen prehistoric virus in Siberia.
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Ancient apple trees spread out with 10 football fields
The apple tree in the city of Krolevets in Sumy province, Ukraine, has a lifespan of 220 years, spread over an area of 40,400m2, equal to 10 standard football fields.
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The virus is a living creature and it shares its ancestors with modern cells
The virus is a living creature, and in the old days it also has cells like bacteria, fungi, plants and even animals today. That was the surprising conclusion of scientis…