A remarkable fossil forest reveals dinosaurs may have helped spread fruit-bearing plants tens of millions of years earlier ...

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has found strong evidence that a plant's ability to reproduce on its own—through ...

Duane Bryers was not a man easily labeled. A Minnesota farm boy, who at times worked in a sawmill and dug ditches, swung from a trapeze in the circus, painted murals, drew comic strips and sculpted ...

According to fossils preserved by volcanic ash, the plants, known as angiosperms, began producing relatively large, blueberry ...

How to tell the difference between a common frog and a common toad; Think toads are ugly? Think again – as these stunning ...

The first animals on Earth took millions of years to evolve, a slowness that surprises paleontologists. How to explain it ...

Arizona is starting to trade its dry, blazing days for a wetter summer as towering clouds build across the horizon and scattered rain showers begin to sprinkle the desert. With monsoon season settling ...

Artist’s impression of an Ediacaran animal community. Credit: Hugo Salais A new study suggests evolution stayed stuck for millions of years until sexual reproduction helped unleash a burst of ...

At first glance, a solar farm in Minnesota looked like any other clean energy project, with neat rows of panels built to send electricity onto the grid. Then workers planted native prairie flowers and ...

Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 after the explosion. Credit: 資源エネルギー庁 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0 A new genetic study has revealed how escaped domestic pigs rapidly mixed with wild boar ...

A new Japanese study has decoded why the population of radioactive pig-boar hybrids is on the rise in Fukushima, the epicentre of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident.

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