What a Coconut Looks Like (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

What a Coconut Looks Like

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A chef wearing avocado sunscreen holds a sweet nui vai coconut. The photo was taken in the Masoala Peninsula of Madagascar by plant biologist Bee Gunn while she was collecting coconut leaf tissue for DNA analysis.The DNA of the Madagascar coconuts turned out to be particularly interesting, preserving, as it did, news of the arrival of ancient Austronesians at the island off Africa.

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Photographed by Bee Gunn while collecting under a National Geographic Society Grant

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