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 ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

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

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.

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

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

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

According to the 2021 Plant-Based State of the Industry Report, produced by the Good Food Institute (GFI), plant-based milk sales in the United States grew by 4 percent last year to $2.6 billion.

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

Climate, geology, and biology together gave rise to one of Earth’s most dramatic turning points: the Cambrian explosion. About 530 million years ago, most of the basic body plans of organisms that ...

By the Ordovician, starting around 485 million years ago, shell percentages rose. This increase lines up with the Cambrian Explosion, a period when life rapidly diversified. Early on, sponges were ...