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

When Bonneville was first told by others ... two that can survive in Earth’s most extreme environments. Early fungi would have also helped pave the way for land plants. Without them to break ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The subcanopy beneath was made up of seed ferns and ferns. Flowering plants and ferns ...

This article explores ten extinct plant species, from the ancient Araucarioxylon arizonicum to the more recent Sophora ...

The end-Permian mass extinction was the deadliest event in Earth’s history ... insects and four-limbed land animals – echo the findings in plants. The emerging picture means Nowak isn ...

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 ...

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

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

At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to ...

Something wonderful is happening in the geology department at Cal Poly Humboldt right now. Ten undergraduate students from ...