For weeks, gawkers lined up at the U.S. Botanic Garden, hoping to be among the lucky ones to catch the show when a giant - sized corpse flower bloomed for the first time in seven years. (scientificamerican.com)
Information about this exhibition is sparse, but it's teased with an intriguing painting: The Breed (2017), an image of the so - called corpse flower that bloomed last year in the New York Botanical Garden. (artnews.com)
And finally, find out the bizarre biology of the parasitic corpse flower, what's really behind the woolly mammoth's demise, and how a hipster hacker changed the presidential election game — it's all inside. (discovermagazine.com)