The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

Earth's history is marked by devastating mass extinctions, each one reshaping life as we know it. Now, experts warn that ...

Trigg Minerals (ASX:TMG) aims to take advantage of the critical minerals domestic supply chain initiatives of US President ...

One such event was the Ordovician Mass Extinction, almost 400 million years ago, according to IFLScience. This period in time was extremely different from the world we know today, as life did not ...

Do you know the difference between an annual, biennial and perennial plant? If not, here's everything you need to know.

Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

New research claims that tomato plants in the Galápagos might actually be de-evolving and picking up ancient traits.

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...