according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that challenge our conventional understanding about the evolution of ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

This film explores the evolution of vascular plants ... anatomical features and adaptations that allowed early plants to thrive on land, including the development of roots, stems, and leaves ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth ... algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed a shared stress response network using advanced ...

During a billion years of evolution, they’ve become masters of survival. And yet, fungi have also been integral to the development of life on Earth. In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

Intricate regulation of gene expression is important for execution of biology processes. Here, the authors generate a comprehensive map of accessible chromatin by integrating the ATAC-seq data of ...

On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...

Plants adjust cellular pressure to respond to environmental factors. The evolution of stomata played a major role in changing ...