Two major steps kicked off the chain of events that helped land plants prosper, forming the basis for modern land-based ecosystems and fundamentally altering the course of evolution of life on ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns ...

Virginia Tech study unveils 2 billion years of evolution, highlighting the 'boring billion,' Snowball Earth, and ancient ...

fill an approximately 25-million-year gap in knowledge by reconciling the molecular clock—or pace of evolution—with the fossil spore record—the physical evidence of early plant life gathered by ...

Over 450 million years ago, plants began the epic transition from water to dry land. Among the first pioneers were the ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve “backward” ...

Project leader Professor Dan Macqueen emphasized the significance of these duplications in shaping the course of life on our ...

Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better ... an organism must be well suited to its environment. For example, a plant in the Mojave Desert needs to make do with very ...

During a billion years of evolution, they’ve become masters of survival. And yet, fungi have also been integral to the development of life on Earth. In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial ...

As the world undergoes rapid change due to anthropogenic carbon emissions, scientists will need to know what plants have the ability to adapt and what plants that are too specialized to survive. But ...