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

Her new book, When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance, looks at how plant fossils are telling the billion-years old tale of the evolution of complex life on ...

Mollusks, one of the largest and most diverse animal phyla ... A major theme in the evolution of mollusks is the extent of convergent evolution and character shifts in shorter time scales. For example ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited ... of speciation and extinction to understand how contemporary animal and plant species are faring today and how they will fare in the future.