Articles for tag: Botany Facts, Exploding Plants, Nature Mysteries, Plant Science, Plant Secrets, Strange Nature

A close-up of a dandelion with seeds dispersing into the blue sky, symbolizing change.

The Truth About Touch-Me-Nots: Why Some Plants Really Do Explode

Suhail Ahmed

Everyone remembers the first time a seed pod snaps under your fingers – the soft click, the sudden jolt, the tiny seeds flung like confetti. It feels mischievous, like the plant’s playing a prank, but there’s hard engineering buried in that moment. For centuries, people mistook these small blasts for botanical quirks when they are, ...

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Why Australia Does Not Have a Native Bear Species

Suhail Ahmed

  Australia is a continent of oddities, where egg-laying mammals shuffle beneath parrots the color of traffic lights and kangaroos bound over red sand like spring-loaded deer. Yet one conspicuous group never made it: bears. The puzzle touches deep-time geology, ocean barriers, and the chance routes that steered evolution’s traffic. It also reveals why a ...