Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early primate ape ancestor, Dryopithecus, and progressing toward modern man, Homo ...

The extinction of dinosaurs had a significant impact on the development of plants, a new study has shown. Experts at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in the cities of ...

The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Scientists analysing one of the largest genomic datasets of plants have discovered how the first plants on Earth evolved the mechanisms used to control water and ‘breathe’ on land hundreds of millions ...

Sex determination in dioecious plants, where male and female functions are segregated into distinct individuals, is governed by a remarkable diversity of genetic and developmental mechanisms. Recent ...

A new study involving an international team of researchers has found that the evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Earth's continents. The discovery was made by linking ...

Fossil of Gansufructus saligna gen. et sp. nov. showing branches, leaves as well as terminal fruits in different stages of maturity. Scale bars: 1.0 cm. In his vast correspondence with other ...

Scientists analyzing one of the largest genomic datasets of plants have discovered how the first plants on Earth evolved the mechanisms used to control water and 'breathe' on land hundreds of millions ...