Watermelon

From winter to spring, the French Alps are shrouded in stark white snow. But when spring turns into summer, the stoic slopes start to blush. Parts of the snow take on bright colors: deep red, rusty orange, lemonade pink. The locals call…

"We are very confident to say that this is the closest relative," said Dr. Khomicki.The Kordofan melon and the modern watermelon most likely originated from a long-gone wild melon, as the results suggest. Farmers would have recognized…