An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

Plant evolution is the subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plants. The study of plant evolution includes the study of genetic change and the variations that result in speciation.

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the first plants existed. They traced its origins back to an evolutionary ...

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

After examining these plants for three decades ... and created a formalized method for building computerized evolutionary trees that we now call cladistics. My colleague Vicki Funk and ...

Our new Evolution Garden in front of our iconic building ... such as monkey puzzle and cypress trees. Cycads were one of the first plants to be pollinated by insects, with beetles transferring pollen ...

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

Earth system models are essential tools for studying complex planetary processes, including interactions between the atmosphere and biosphere.

Turns out our closest living evolutionary cousins, chimps, do this too. A study in June by Elodie Freymann and colleagues collected plant extracts from 13 species of trees and herbs in Uganda’s ...