Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...

Archaeologists and evolutionary biologists have uncovered fossilized avocado remains in Honduras, revealing that humans began domesticating avocados as early as 7,500 years ago. The discovery, ...

Ancient peoples of Latin America saved avocados from extinction by cultivating them after megafauna went extinct, researchers ...

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They were originally dispersed by megafauna: Giant ground sloths ... Early on, people were “just picking wild fruits from their trees as they need to,” and the trash was littered with cherry ...

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It prefers to be concealed in dense cover, darting between bush and tree, and making low-level passes ... the Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher is a giant personality in the forest as it has colored ...

These included enormous animals such as mammoths, mastodons and giant sloths that could be ... years they were clearly managing their avocado trees,” said VanDerwarker. “We see the fruits ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Pilar Del Rey, the character actress perhaps best remembered for her turn in Giant as the Mexican woman who has a seriously ill newborn who grows up to be the doomed ...

He raises roughly 720 avocado trees alongside the pines. The crop “has brought life” to his community, which was once “extremely, extremely poor.” “We are like guardians of the forest ...