The hated Tasmanian blue gum tree - better known as a variety of eucalyptus - has been blamed for virtually every evil short of snatching babies out of strollers, but its species can never be removed ...

Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. 'Almond blossom' by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Do artists and scientists see the same ...

Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis as a kid -- a wriggly caterpillar molts its skin to form a tough chrysalis and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. But how exactly do chrysalises stay ...

Talk about the extended family! A single-celled organism in Norway has been called "mankind's furthest relative." It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a ...

When it comes to agriculture from branched plants, such as apple trees, the more branches that bear fruit, the better. But in the real world, there's a limit to the number of branches that plants make ...

There is a scientific picture waiting to be drawn. Someone has to do artistic justice to the evolutionary tree of life. Back in 1837, Charles Darwin sketched out a tree of life in a notebook as a way ...