A fossil plant smaller than a fingernail, collected more than a century ago from a Scottish rock bed, is reshaping the story of how Earth’s first plants rose from ground-hugging mats to upright forms ...

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 ...

Liverwort uses hair-like rhizoids to collect phosphorus from its surroundings and deliver it to where it is needed. This Kobe ...

A crack team of arthropod bodyguards may be defending that cherry tree in your backyard or the maple across the street. Mites protect plants by acting like herds of grazing sheep, munching the fungi ...

Pinpointing when early land plants colonized terrestrial environments and began influencing Earth's systems is a core ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plant reproduction plays a vital role in our food systems and the balance of ecosystems, yet it remains a complex process. Plants ...

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Researchers generated large scale gene expression data to investigate the molecular networks that operate in one of the closest algal relatives of land plants, a humble single-celled alga called ...

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What do you get when a Bates biology professor joins a paleobotanist, hydrologist, plant physiologist, and plant anatomist in a research project? You get the answer to a question that has long vexed ...

“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 ...

New research solves a mystery as to why mitochondria in some plants evolve faster than others. The University of Texas at Austin Evolution is a slow process occurring over many generations, but it can ...