For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

An evolutionary "arms race" for light and space drove the early domestication of wheat, according to new research that could ...

New study shows that plants evolve in under five years, but extreme heat still pushes many populations toward extinction.

An international team of researchers has uncovered a remarkable genetic phenomenon in lycophytes, which are similar to ferns and among the oldest land plants. Their study, recently published in the ...

The clubmosses and their relatives are the most ancient group of vascular plants — plants with specialized tissue called xylem that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant. The only plant ...

“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 ...

Experience the mesmerizing transformation of eight unique plants over 1,020 days in this stunning time-lapse compilation. From sunflower and cactus to water lily and matthiola incana, watch each ...

Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Long before dinosaurs roamed the land, Earth looked very different from the planet we ...