Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged.

In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Plant evolution is the subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plants. The study of plant evolution includes the study of genetic change and the variations that result in speciation.

Feb. 26, 2025 — It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the ...

All 42 known species of the parasitic plant Rafflesia, often known as the corpse flower, are endangered due to runaway destruction of their tropical forest habitats.

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.