Plants that drop all their leaves at one time and enter a leafless, dormant state are called deciduous. In climates that ...

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving ...

What began as evergreen worship in pre-Christian cultures evolved through German traditions, British royal influence, and ...

Spruce bark beetles use the plant defense compounds in spruce bark as a protective mechanism. After feeding, they metabolize ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.