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An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

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It was 2006 and Ismail Ebrahim, a botanist with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), was worried. While ...

While urbanization has restricted and fragmented the natural ecosystems, it also creates new and diverse environmental ...

Moss spores survived an extended stay on the outside of the ISS and remained capable of germinating once back on Earth. Their ...

What are native plants? Either you love them, hate them or don’t really know what they are. If you fall into the latter ...

While lunar gardens are still out of reach, the study sheds more light on terrestrial biology that may not be limited to our planet's surface ...

This tiny plant performs real arithmetic in the dark. Here’s how it uses its calculations not only to survive, but to time ...

It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses ...