Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life has been knocked back by volcanic eruptions, climate swings, changing seas ...

Photo credit: daisyferret1 The Whitewater Gorge is one of those geological features that makes you realize Indiana has way ...

Flowering plants survived Earth’s worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others ...

Pressed plant specimens collected centuries ago and stored in herbaria around the world could play a key role in facilitating ...

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

Let’s be honest: keeping plants alive isn’t everyone’s superpower. Some people talk to their monstera every morning, mist leaves, and treat plants like roommates. The rest of us? We realize a plant is ...

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

The jewelflower, a small California wildflower, may help scientists understand how more plants could survive changing weather ...

From the highest mountains to the deepest ocean, the driest desert to the lushest jungle, Earth displays a dazzling array of ...

The cost of life insurance can vary greatly, depending on your age and health, the death benefit, riders and many other factors. Term life insurance is a popular option because of its affordability: A ...

Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a ...

By Eric Washburn When I was a kid growing up in Aurora in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one of my favorite things to do was ...