AIIMS Bhubaneswar is investigating a potential link between consuming cycad plant-based foods and neurological diseases. Researchers are examining if BMAA, a neurotoxin found in cycads, contributes to ...

Owning or selling this plant without a permit is illegal in South Africa, and offenders could face a hefty fine or jail time. The Cycads Society of South Africa says it's committed to protecting one ...

Plants add aesthetic appeal to any landscape. A pop of plant-produced color can complement any landscape, but homeowners also can use plants to liven up hardscapes as well.

Guam-born Benjamin Deloso has a fascination with cycads. His fascination led him to enroll in a PhD program at Florida International University, where he plans to focus on Pacific Island cycads for ...

John Allen has an addiction, and he readily admits it. He can’t live without cycads. He has planted dozens of varieties of them across his 1-acre hillside property in rural Vista. Allen bought the ...

Sydney - In a garden centre near you are palm-like plants called cycads that we have been told were around when dinosaurs roamed the earth 200 million years ago. It turns out they were not, Australian ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. It might have survived the dinosaurs, but finding a partner ...

Study explores why plants that co-existed with dinosaurs are still here today despite not changing much Figure 1: Ancestors of today’s cycads co-existed with the dinosaurs (top). Fossils reveal that ...

A small butterfly once thought extinct has staged such a comeback in South Florida that it is now considered a bit of a garden pest — and a persistent problem for a renowned research facility where ...

“Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote paleontologist Richard Fortey in his book about the evolution of life. The only known wild E. Woodii was discovered in 1895 by the ...

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