Botanical enthusiasts were in for a notoriously stinky experience at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Thursday. One of the conservatory's aptly-named corpse flowers - ...

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A rare plant famous for smelling like decaying flesh is about to put on one of nature’s most unusual shows. Scarlet, the famous corpse flower at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers, is expected to ...

A fossil that has puzzled scientists for over 150 years is possibly the largest scorpion known to exist. Fragments of this novel species were discovered in 1870 in the St Maughans geologic formation ...