In a rainforest teeming with competition, one tree has discovered how to turn catastrophe into advantage. In Panama’s dense ...

The tonka bean tree in Panama not only survives, but thrives off of lightning strikes, which it uses to wipe out its ...

Basically, lightning attaches to a tree crown and then it flows outward and jumps out from its branches and trunk to the neighbors, sort of like spider webs through the canopy, and electrocutes ...