Decades after it was first found in Japan, a species of crustacean with unique black-and-white coloring that resembles a ...

Researchers from Jiangsu University, China, have successfully resolved the relationships among five major mesangiosperm ...

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition and climate change can reduce the competitive advantage of nitrogen-fixing plants, leading ...

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition and climate change can reduce the competitive advantage of nitrogen-fixing plants, leading to reduced diversity of these plants in a community. Surprisingly, changes ...

Human-driven bird extinctions over the last 130,000 years have cut avian functional diversity and erased 3 billion years of ...

From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world's plant species. A new study shows that of all plants ...

Series of paleomaps visualising the geographical and chronological aspects of the main events during the evolutionary history of the freshwater fish family Nemacheilidae across Eurasia. A red star ...

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If you want to plant trees in your Denver yard, consider native trees. They have been growing in Colorado since before the first European settlers arrived, so they are adapted to Denver’s elevation ...

The best fake plants, though, are the ones that look almost as natural as real ones and suit a variety of tastes and styles. Our top picks include the West Elm Faux Potted Rubber Tree, a lifelike ...

Phoenix might not be the first city that comes to mind when people think of trees. But a respectable number of trees grow quite well in this booming metropolitan area of 5 million people. With a ...

A recent study suggests that by the Neoproterozoic period, distinct lineages of amoebae, as well as the ancestors of plants, ...