Research on using Marchantia polymorpha, commonly known as liverwort, a plant closely related to moss, for food and as an ...

A new Atlas of Living Australia grant will help digitise 16,000 plant specimens at Macquarie University, filling critical ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

A stretch of the Slieve Bloom river fails even minimal legal standards but other magnificent parts offer a glimpse of what ...

A species is classified as a priority if it meets two conditions: it appears on a red list of threatened species and Switzerland has an international duty to protect it. Of the ro ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

The 'spectacular' cliffs, which are free to visit, are so old that there is evidence that dinosaurs once called the area home ...

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A team of researchers have demonstrated how moss can act as a forensic ‘fingerprint’ when confirming details about a crime ...