For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...
A study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...
New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia. By Rachel Nuwer Baobabs are one of the most ...
New study shows that plants evolve in under five years, but extreme heat still pushes many populations toward extinction.
My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...
“You shouldn’t make decisions when you’re hungry.” Tell that to the cell that ate a bacterium 1.5 billion years ago and set in motion the evolution of all plants on Earth. In this episode of Crash ...