Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

Beneath the forest floor lies an overlooked secret: many plants grow a second set of roots far deeper than expected sometimes ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

Land plants didn’t come onto the ... to create symbiosis with the first plants, they were the key to this major evolutionary transition," he says—the spreading of plants across the Earth. ...

Journalist Christina Cooke visits Patrick Brown on his farm in North Carolina, where he is reclaiming his family's history ...