The study, published in Science, highlights how a gene transfer between fungi and early plants helped these organisms adapt to terrestrial environments, sparking the development of Earth’s first ...

A new discovery changes ideas about the origin of branching in plants. A new discovery by scientists at the University of Bristol changes ideas about the origin of branching in plants. By studying ...

The world’s oldest moss, called Takakia, has persisted in some of Earth’s most ... s DNA for the first time and determine how the climate crisis is affecting the plant. Given how ancient ...

The excerpt below is taken from "Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth ... plants to complete the slow march landward revolved around access to the elements in Life's Formula. A first ...

On this Earth Day, we begin our series looking at what it takes to save plants and animals. We call it "Saving Species." And our first installment looks at the world of plants. KENNY SILVEIRA ...

a doctoral student in Earth and planetary sciences at Yale and first and corresponding author of the new study. Indeed, scientists have long wondered why land plants did not emerge on Earth until ...

By studying the mechanisms responsible for branching, the team have determined what the first land plants are likely to have looked like millions of years ago. Despite fundamentally different ...