Dinosaur-era plant found alive in North America for first time
July 31, 2017 by Frank Otto
Imagine you're at work and suddenly, a cheetah pokes its head through your window.
That's about what Richard McCourt, PhD, and his colleagues dealt with when they came across Lychnothamnus barbatus, a large green alga that was thought to have died in the Western Hemisphere long before the cheetahs here died out.
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