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A tree once considered extinct is now growing inside the Regina Floral Conservatory. The Wollemia nobilis is a species of coniferous tree that is still critically endangered.

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New research decoding their DNA is helping to shed light on how the collapse and slow, scattered return of herds to the landscapes they once dominated has forever changed the mighty species.

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Researchers at the University of Alberta have made a "jaw-dropping discovery" that a raptor dinosaur may have dined on a much larger tyrannosaur.

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