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The first seed guide for Amazonian rainforests written by field leaders. Both authors have worked intensively for years using several grants to complete this project, with one author collecting seeds ...

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Richard Fortey found his first trilobite aged just 14, after braving gorse bushes to break rocks on St David's Peninsula, the westernmost tip of Wales. This first encounter with a trilobite – which ...

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