Long before dinosaurs roamed the land, Earth looked very different from the planet we know today. Around 500 million years ago, most of Earth’s surface was bare rock and dry soil. There were no trees, ...

An evolutionary "arms race" for light and space drove the early domestication of wheat, according to new research that could ...

Experience the mesmerizing transformation of eight unique plants over 1,020 days in this stunning time-lapse compilation.

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that plants will not be able to evolve fast enough to adapt to a rapidly warming ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Long before dinosaurs roamed the land, Earth looked very different from the planet we ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Erin Potter, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

In a one-of-a-kind experiment led by UC Berkeley researchers, biologists in Europe, the Middle East and U.S. planted 360 small plots of Arabidopsis (above) in various types of climates — from alpine ...