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

The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

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.

However, the evolution of life-history strategies in early land plants remains poorly understood. As a predominant and typical component of Early Devonian floras, Zosterophyllopsida has a long ...

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 ...

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

Approximately 430 million years ago, plants began their transition from water to land, a process that changed ... development probably depended on the evolution of various survival strategies ...