Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

The assembly quality of plant genome sequencing has significantly improved with advancements in genome resequencing technology, and this enables more in-depth study of gene evolution. Studying the ...

Quirks and Quarks 54:00 What fossil plants say about the evolution of life, and more… On this week's episode of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald: Is our universe inside a black hole?

Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You'd see a resemblance, but each ...

These Ferns Can “Evolve Backward”, Challenging Our Assumptions About Plant Evolution Evolution is not always linear, at least not for these funky ferns.

Interaction with insects accelerates plant evolution Date: June 19, 2024 Source: University of Zurich Summary: Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of ...

Dozens of plants on a small Japanese island may have shrunk themselves to avoid hungry deer – suggesting that persistent pruning by herbivores could drive the evolution of dwarf plants ...

Earth's surface is covered by plants. They make up the majority of biomass on land and exhibit a wide range of diversity, from mosses to trees. This astounding biodiversity came into existence due ...

The technology to 3D print a 407-million-year old plant fossils and hold it in your hand is really incredible. Our findings give a new perspective on the evolution of Fibonacci spirals in plants.” ...

An unusual arrangement of leaves in a 407-million-year-old fossilized plant is complicating scientists’ understanding of plant evolution. Most land plants living today have spiral patterns ...

Life Ancient plant's leaves didn't follow golden rule as modern ones do Most modern plants grow leaves in a pattern that follows the Fibonacci sequence, but a reconstruction of a 400-million-year ...

Cooperation across the tree of life is an understudied driver of evolution and biodiversity, Marjorie Weber says.