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(Reuters) - The baobab tree is a distinctive sight on the landscape. When its contorted branches are leafless during the dry season, they resemble jumbled roots emanating from a thick trunk, making it ...

University researchers hired several different animals to check whether they could disperse baobab's seeds through their movements and poop.

The residents of Ampotaka rely on the baobab trees during Madagascar's dry season. In the village of Ampotaka, the dry season can last several months. In order to survive, its residents rely on the ...

The baobab (Adansonia) is a genus of trees with eight extant (in existence currently) species and a long history of humans marveling at them. For as much admiration the baobabs get, there is an equal ...

Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler writes about his visit to the dry forests of western Madagascar last month. The dry forest of western Madagascar is famous for its wildlife and baobab trees, including ...

In Madagascar, the August-to-December bushfire season wreaks havoc on the southwest and west of the island. Dry Forest, a young Malagasy NGO, is attempting an extreme form of reforestation to save the ...

Baobabs are the most iconic trees on the savannah; and also the longest-lived. Its size is so impressive that its hollow stem can measure more than 20 meters in diameter and can store up to 120 ...

Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first glance, ...

The baobab tree is one of nature’s weirder creations. With its branches high overhead like a set of upside down roots, it looks like it was plucked straight from a Dr. Seuss book. But something even ...

Join us for a visual tour of the island nation of Madagascar, about 90 percent of whose flora and fauna is found nowhere else on Earth. Baobab trees in western Madagascar.Credit... Supported by ...