The good news for human firefighters is that at least a few of their traditional tasks still remain beyond the robosnake's capabilities -- well, until it's able to climb a tree and rescue a stranded cat without breaking its neck, that is.
"It's nice to have a tree of interest, especially as a teaching establishment, for students to come and see trees that were developed before insects were about, " Mr Rawlings added.
"It's a reproduction of a magnolia tree scent, " he explained.
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Once the beetles hit a tree, it's as good as dead within five years.
Most people see them in flower arrangements, but here it's the size of a small palm tree.
Fortuny's family tree is reproduced on a wall at the entrance of the exhibit, and it is the fruit of this tree that so elegantly fills two floors at the institute.
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"It's very significant to find a new clone variety because the tree's gene pool is very restricted and that is a disadvantage if they are threatened by disease as these are, " she said.
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He added that villagers had gathered after hearing about the tree, adding: "It's quite like a wake".
It has marked the Queen's Diamond Jubilee over the weekend and a commemorative tree has already been planted.
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Dr Fleischer's tree also suggests it may be time to abandon the Canada goose as a distinct species, and elevate its many subspecies one rung up the taxonomic ladder.
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"I think it's unlikely that further barking up the tree of LDL is going to show a substantial benefit, " says Allen Taylor, chief of cardiovascular research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
You might not know it from the war room's poster-size photo of a rhesus monkey slumped against a tree branch.
Chairman William Isaac called the expanded insurance cap a "meaningless ornament on the tree, " in part because it's too limited to help many small businesses.
It's a timber cabin grown grand, three stories' worth, with a big front porch supported by tree-trunk columns.
Besides the Argan tree's various human uses, UNESCO notes, it has had an historical role as a buffer against northern expansion of the Sahara desert.
From it's tree-lined squares to it's stately homes, Georgia's oldest city has a lot to be proud of when it comes to beauty -- and when it comes to cuisine.
First it was sub zero temperatures, now what is believed to be the world's most northerly grove of a Jurassic tree has weathered one of the wettest Julys.
Chemists created a molecule while researching the chemistry of the Australian pine tree, hoping it could work against Alzheimer's.
"A neighbor clear across the street had thought a tree had fallen through his roof, that's how loud the explosion was, and it happened in a split second, " she said.
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Originally it may have been part of an orchard but as the city spread north it became part of a large London garden, the one behind Mr Kossoff's house, and he can see the tree from his studio window.
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