Hidden beneath the damp shade of sal forests in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district, a tiny plant barely a few millimetres long has quietly rewritten a chapter of Indian botany.

Liverwort uses hair-like rhizoids to collect phosphorus from its surroundings and deliver it to where it is needed. This Kobe University discovery sheds light on the evolution of one of the most ...

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The history of the first plant on Earth is not as simple as the identification of a particular species of plants, but it is a ...

Despite lacking mechanisms for absorbing water and nutrients like roots and vascular tissue of other land plants, the common liverwort Marchantia polymorpha absorbs and transfer nutrients using its ...

How did life move from water to land? Discover the 550-million-year journey from ancient algae to the first vascular plants like Cooksonia.

Cemetery workers argued that the crimes happened before their employment. But a buried bit of moss told a different story ...

Not every witness can take the stand, but this was still able to expose the culprits.

Hundreds of plants are protected by the Endangered Species Act, but moss is an underdog. There's only one type that has federal protection, but a group of scientists wants to change that.

It will return a 'significant room' back to the original layout ...

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the Ordovician Period, when global sea levels were much higher than today. In a ...