A 400-million-year-old plant creates water so weird it looks alien

ScienceDaily
Nov 13, 2025, 3:31 am251 pts
Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope signatures more extreme than anything previously recorded on Earth—sometimes resembling meteorite water. By tracing these isotopic shifts from the plant base to its tip, scientists unlocked a…

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