One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ...

Millions of years before the first trees grew their canopies and the earliest insects buzzed, a strange organism sprouted from the ground. It looked like a trunk, cylindrical and bare, stretching over ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Researchers have discovered a new species of the elusive 'fairy lantern' genus Thismia in a hill dipterocarp forest in ...

With furry white leaves and maroon-streaked florets, the newly identified plant has been dubbed "wooly devil." ...

Global research team explores how environmental factors and dispersal barriers influence biodiversity. Why do certain plants ...