(Nebraska Today) - Plant life first emerged on land about 550 million years ago ... which made possible all other terrestrial ...

The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have ... more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found ...

Around 430 million years ago, plants began their transition from ocean to land, a process that significantly transformed the Earth's ecological environment, according to experts. "Terrestrial ...