400-Million-Year-Old Fossil Upends Our Understanding of Fibonacci Spirals in Nature

A close up of a sunflower's center.(UrsaHoogle/iStock/Getty Images)

If your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem, the texture of a pineapple, or the scales of a pinecone, then you have unknowingly witnessed brilliant examples of mathematical patterns in nature.

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WHO ARE THE SASQUATCH AND WHY ARE THEY HERE?

They are known by a variety of names, the most famous being Yeti (Tibet), Almas (Siberia), Yowie (Australia), Didi (South America), Skookum, Seatco (Washington, Oregon), Skunk Ape (Florida), Misaabe (Eastern Canada), or Bush Men (Nunavut). An association can be made with Hanuman and the Ape People of the Vedic scriptures in India or similar stories transmitted for centuries.

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