'Weird' Fern Shows the Power of Interspecies Sex

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The love between two ferns knows few bounds, it appears. A DNA analysis of a hybrid fern shows that its parents are two different species separated by nearly 60 million years of evolution.

"A 60 million year divergence is approximately equivalent to a human mating with a lemur," says <a target=_blank rel="nofollow" ...Read More

Source: NPR Science - ingested into KQED

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