A study published in Science Advances shows that, in moss and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, commonly known as thale ...

An unusual arrangement of leaves in a 407-million-year-old fossilized plant is complicating scientists’ understanding of plant evolution. Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving ...

According to a research team led by palaeontologists, the net-like leaf veining typical for today's flowering plants developed much earlier than previously thought, but died out again several times.

Plants go through cycles based on the time of the year. It can be fun to watch a tree, for example, move from having bare branches in the winter to buds in the spring, full leaves in the summer, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...