Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Evolution of plant network: 600 million years of stress Date: March 10, 2025 Source: University of Göttingen Summary: Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns ...

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

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

NASA scientists are using airborne technology to track flowers from above, offering new insights into seasonal plant cycles.

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 ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

NASA scientists are using space-based imaging technology to unlock the hidden world of flowers. By tracking wildflower blooms ...

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...