A new discovery changes ideas about the origin of branching in plants. A new discovery by scientists at the University of Bristol changes ideas about the origin of branching in plants. By studying ...

The first land plants burst forth from ancient algae onto the Earth about 550 million years ago. This one-off evolutionary event, known as plant terrestrialization, fundamentally changed the ...

sparking the development of Earth’s first ecosystems. Scientists have long been interested in how plants transitioned from water to land, but much of the focus has historically been on flowering ...

(Nebraska Today) - Plant life first emerged on land about 550 million years ago ... which made possible all other terrestrial life on Earth, including humans. The team — about 50 scientists ...

This episode of Untold Earth gets up close and personal with ... Mosses were among the first land plants to evolve out of the ocean roughly 450 million years ago. They grow everywhere, from ...

The plants made Earth’s landmasses more hospitable to ... “The idea was to go as deep as possible into the history of the first land plants to see what they can tell us about evolution ...

The team around Hirofumi Nakagami, have discovered that the first line of immunity ... going on to transform the Earth’s land surface and ultimately benefitting our lives. Understanding the origin and ...

One of the fastest-evolving species ever studied may not be evolving fast enough to survive rising temperatures. Takakia lepidozioides, a type of moss found mainly in the US, Japan and Tibet, has ...

Far in the future, about two billion years from now, all of the biogeochemical fail-safes that keep Earth habitable will be pushed past their limits. First, land plants will die off, and then ...

By studying the mechanisms responsible for branching, the team have determined what the first land plants are likely to have looked like millions of years ago. Despite fundamentally different ...