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Jurassic era plants are ready to reproduce for the first time in 60 million years
- Thread starter LordByron28
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Thats no good.
Hopefully Bolsanaro and Trump can take care of that.
These are Japanese sago palms, they aren't even uncommon. What is uncommon is the fact that they might be able to reproduce without aid in Britain because of climate change.
The title of the article is stupid.
Shitty article and title.... How it should read...
"Palms that can't reproduce naturally in Britain, may soon be able to do to climate change."
The fact that relatives of these palm trees used to grow all over the world 60 million years ago is irrelevant click bait.
Oh so it's only that they're reproducing THERE for the first time in forever.
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Ah thanks for the info.
Clearly you have never played Pokemon.
Like how these are cycads and not palms it's a bit too much work to care.
Wierd thing is Cycads have been making their way into temperate northern hemisphere anyways lately over the eons, reconquering old territory but they botched it.
There's a palm tree planted in a park in Halifax (Canada) that survived the winter. Wonder if it's one of these.
Thank you. I'm kind of sick of pop science articles trying waaaaay too hard with these sort of headlines.
Science journalism strikes again.
"Common Japanese plant reproduces without aid in Britain for the first time in millions of years because of climate shift"
Journalists: "WE'RE BRINGING BACK THE DINOSAURS BAYBEE
Exactly, read the article, it's not nearly as dramatic as it sounds
I think the core of the situation here, for me at least, is:
Because of global warming, not only will animals be migrating differently and populating different areas they don't normally do, but plants will begin to propagate areas they normally don't due to the climate being easier for them to do that in the aforementioned areas.
Things that die off or struggle due to climate change will be replaced that things that *can* deal with it. This isn't a good or bad thing, just one of many things that will shift due to climate change and can be good indicators as to how quickly things are changing.
Because of global warming, not only will animals be migrating differently and populating different areas they don't normally do, but plants will begin to propagate areas they normally don't due to the climate being easier for them to do that in the aforementioned areas.
Things that die off or struggle due to climate change will be replaced that things that *can* deal with it. This isn't a good or bad thing, just one of many things that will shift due to climate change and can be good indicators as to how quickly things are changing.
