A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

New species of the plants are still being discovered, and their parasitic biology is being probed for potential cancer ...

Discover how animals adapt to winter and what we can learn—from hibernation to staying active and warm during the cold season ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

By Adrienne EngonoCarolle AhodekonCharles KolouChristophe AssogbaRoland KlohiRosie Pioth Across many parts of Africa’s ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Rabbit-sized, nocturnal and elusive, the greater mouse-deer hadn’t been seen in Singapore for more than 80 years. Researchers long presumed it was locally extinct. In 2008, however, researchers ...

From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

Further upside to Dollar Tree’s (DLTR) stock is likely to be harder to achieve given the company’s declining exposure to a lower income cohort and current valuation, leading Goldman Sachs to downgrade ...

When I was about 7 or 8 years old, my biology-professor dad brought me a present home from work: a jar of sticks. Or at least that’s what I thought it was. When some of them started moving he ...