The last wild Round Island hurricane palm, a rare tree native to Mauritius, snapped during a windstorm in mid-September, marking its extinction. Once thriving on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean, the tree had stood alone for decades as the only survivor of its kind. Standing 9 meters (30 feet) tall, the Dictyosperma album […]
Oh come on, someone must have cloned it, it’s relatively simple to do even after it’s broken - plant stem cells are quite hardy. It’s totally hobbyist-level technology. That way we could’ve filled the island with hundreds of these palms over a couple of years, they would’ve been clones, sure, but then cross-polinating a palm forest would’ve been a much simpler task, not mentioning that at least all the critters wouldn’t have to be homeless.