When the world goes bad, some plants do something astonishing. They can’t run or hide, nor can they do much about changing ...
A new study suggests that duplicated genomes gave some flowering plants the genetic flexibility needed to endure Earth’s ...
Most living organisms inherit two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, but plants frequently undergo whole-genome ...
The impact that ended the Cretaceous Period could have been much worse for life on Earth, were it not that many flowering ...
When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...
A newly identified dinosaur species, Maleriraptor kuttyi, is reshaping what we know about the survival and evolution of predatory dinosaurs. The small, meat-eating dinosaur, which lived roughly 220 ...