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

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

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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 ...

With almost a third of cacti species threatened with extinction, a new open-access database of cactus ecology and evolution ...

Evolution rarely hits delete. Instead, it leaves behind living relics built for animals that no longer exist. Avocados are one of them.

Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago. These early plants lived in shallow water near shorelines, where conditions changed often. Sometimes ...