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ASC Staff Helps Create "Geo Walk"

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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years

NPR Science correspondent Robert Krulwich tells the fascinating story of the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryococelus australis.  Last seen in the 1920s and believed to be extinct, this giant bug…

Ancient plant

Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived

 

Exerpt: "... a species that most closely resembles a plant found today, the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)."   "Working with a burrow from the site called Duvanny…