To get by in the waterlogged, low-nutrient soil of the Quebrada Chorro forest in western Panama, a species of tree fern repurposes its dead fronds, turning them into roots. The discovery “was ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign plant biology professor James Dalling and his colleagues discovered that some tree ferns recycle their dead fronds into roots. The researchers call these ...

You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] Scientists have discovered a zombie tree that converts its leaves into roots as it dies. The Cyathea rojasiana tree fern ...

but incredibly well-preserved images of sprawling tree trunks and fallen leaves that once breathed life into an ancient rainforest. Replete with a diverse mix of extinct plants, the 300-million ...

the three girls chanted in Finnish as they skipped through the forest ... sticks into the brook (Pelo said they were “fishing”) while other children teetered across a fallen pine tree ...

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oblanceolata entered the Guinness Book of World Records after a team of scientists determined that the wispy fern has the biggest known genome of any living organism. Crammed into the nucleus of ...