In this episode of Tiny Matters, we explore the complex and essential relationship between plants and animals across evolution and some of the pivotal moments that allowed humans to exist and that led ...

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 ...

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural ...

A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within ...

Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

What does biodiversity have to do with evolution? We ask Edwin Pos, evolutionary ecologist and Scientific Director of the Utrecht University Botanic Gardens.

How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

LANZHOU -- Researchers have recently uncovered the genetic basis of camouflage in Corydalis hemidicentra, an alpine plant and ...