In hard times, some flowering plants transformed into "hopeful monsters" to save themselves. These monsters are more common ...

Ancient survival strategy: Flowering plants duplicated entire genomes during at least nine major environmental crises over 150 million years. Polyploidy under stress: Polyploids often struggle in ...

Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...

When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In ...

A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable prehistoric discoveries. Scientists have now identified the 240-million-year-old amphibian, ...

Shifts in Earth's orbit around the sun influence the start and end of Ice Ages over tens of thousands of years and human ...

Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.