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Imagine you're at work and suddenly, a cheetah pokes its head through your window. That's about what Richard McCourt, PhD, and his colleagues dealt with when they came across Lychnothamnus barbatus, a large green alga that was thought to have died in the Western Hemisphere long before the cheetahs here died out. “This means mainly that we don't know as much about what's out there as we could,” said McCourt, associate curator of Botany…