Misha Glenny and guests discuss the earliest trees and how, as species disappear over time, new trees can evolve even from species better known as house plants or vegetables.

New research suggests plants on Earth could survive for nearly another two billion years — far longer than previously ...

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 ...

As I highlighted in a recent paper, an extraordinary range of adaptations have evolved in aquatic plants for life beneath the ...

Bromeliads are one of the great evolutionary success stories of the neotropics, the tropical ecosystems of the Americas. The ...

Over 450 million years ago, plants began the epic transition from water to dry land. Among the first pioneers were the ancestors of humble hornworts, a group of small, unassuming plants that have ...

Nature cradles many miracles in its embrace, even in the way of forming partnerships that define entire branches of life over ...

In the summer of 2011, paleontologist and science writer Riley Black was on a mission. Walking through the Montana desert, she was on the lookout for a Tyrannosaurus rex. But that day, she wasn’t ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...