Like the clubmosses (see Plant Evolution I), the ferns are early vascular plants that rely on water for sexual reproduction because they have free-swimming sperm. Because of this, they are limited ...

Hank Asia/ Shutterstock Ferns were one of the earliest vascular plants to evolve and would have been food for the massive herbivorous dinosaurs that lumbered across the land. The ferns that grew then ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

We house one of the most important collections of ferns and other seed-free vascular plants in the world, with around 350,000 specimens. Access to some collections will be affected as we prepare for ...

These ancestors, it was thought, probably arose from the seed-ferns (Pteridosperms ... show that many of the main groups of vascular land plants can be traced right back to Devonian times ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants ...