Until not that long ago, scientists widely agreed on the evolutionary journey that plants took from the oceans to the land. They thought that algae evolved into mosses and their relatives, known as ...

If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly stormy fall outs you might have even hoped it was a sign that you were ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution ...

Plants range from simple seaweeds and single-celled pond scum, through to mosses, ferns and huge trees. Palaeontologists like us have long debated exactly how this diverse range of shapes and sizes ...

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Around the world, the places we live in are changing the way that nature evolves. White clovers adapt in similar ways to face the dryness of cities, providing one of the clearest examples of how ...

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...