Kirk blows our minds with the age of Bristlecone Pines. Did you know there are living trees that predate the invention of written language?

Victoria then has a doozy of a story about White-throated sparrows developing a new secondary sex chromosome. This bizarre occurrence means there are technically four different sexes of this bird instead of the regular two.

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