A new study reveals how a remarkable group of plants on the Galápagos Islands developed their diverse leaf shapes—offering ...

Learn how ancient plants survived extreme heat after the Permian–Triassic mass extinction and what their strategy could mean ...

Water your plants to watch them grow. Nah, just beat up a couple of zombies, and your mushroom will evolve into a fighter because that’s how Sigma’s grow their shrooms. Plants Evolution is more than ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

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 ...

This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant professor of plant and microbial biology. Right before his Aug. 1 start date, Tiley and colleagues published a Perspectives ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Thorns in different plant species have always been an interesting subject for botanists. Be it rose plants or cactus, they ...

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, ...

Wasps are moving into plant structures once reserved for ants, disrupting a 10-million-year partnership that helps protect ...

“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 ...