Neither too hot nor too cold, an area of rugged terrain has provided ideal conditions for a specific plant family for more ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling the ...

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

An international team of researchers, including three New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientists, used genetic code from more than 9,500 flowering plant species to create the most detailed ...

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 ...

Wasps invading ant-plant systems are displacing ants in disturbed forests, potentially harming ecosystem stability and ...

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 ...

Collaborations across research disciplines can lead to unexpected breakthroughs and discoveries. Collaborations across species lead to unexpected evolutionary paths of mutual benefit. For example, ...

New research says the scarlet monkeyflower can adapt to and make a recovery from extreme drought events, offering hope of a boost in conservation efforts to help declining or threatened species.

An international team of scientists from Queen Mary University of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Biology Centre ...

“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 ...