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Mojave Yucca # 0311 - 1233 ( 12,000 year old , Mojave Desert , California)The roughly 12,000 - class - old creosote bush and Mojave yucca both have remarkable round structure , pushing tardily outward from a central originating stem . New stems replace quondam ones , but they are all connected by the same clonal root social organization .

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12,000 year old Mojave Yucca

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A rendering of Prototaxites as it may have looked during the early Devonian Period, approximately 400 million years

Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape with dinosaurs.

A picture of a large blue lake with a hilly, forested shoreline

a child in a yellow rain jacket holds up a jar with a plant

The fossil Keurbos susanae - or Sue - in the rock.

A new study has revealed that lichens can withstand the intense ionizing radiation that hits Mars� surface. (The lichen in this photo is Cetraria aculeata.)

A satellite image of a large hurricane over the Southeastern United States

A satellite photo of a giant iceberg next to an island with hundreds of smaller icebergs surrounding the pair

A photo of Lake Chala

A blue house surrounded by flood water in North Beach, Maryland.

a large ocean wave

Sunrise above Michigan�s Lake of the Clouds. We see a ridge of basalt in the foreground.

two white wolves on a snowy background

An illustration of a pensive Viking woman sitting by the sea

lady justice with a circle of neon blue and a dark background

a close-up of a handmade stone tool

an illustration of a man shaping a bonsai tree

a destoryed city with birds flying and smoke rising

Split image of an eye close up and the Tiangong Space Station.