A vast colony of aspen clones could hold clues about how ancient organisms protect their genomes from harmful mutations.

The entries emphasize chance’s prominent role in evolution. For instance, Black imagines a saber-toothed cat chowing down on ...

according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that challenge our conventional understanding about the evolution of ...

Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation across the last 500 million years, this book also ...

This plant family comprises about 34,000 species ... and analyzed a new global database on the distribution and evolutionary ...

The life spans of plants, animals, and microbes range from minutes to millennia. Some reproduce only once and others many times. Why are life histories so diverse? Imagine an organism capable of ...

Experts have revealed the origins of a unique DNA duplication mechanism that grants plants additional ways to control genetic instructions.