Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it ...

Moss may look insignificant, but it can carry a hidden forensic fingerprint. Because different moss species thrive in very specific micro-environments, tiny fragments can reveal exactly where a person ...

The earliest case the team found was from 1929, when the growth rate of mosses on a decomposing skeleton helped investigators ...

Matt von Konrat, Head of Botanical Collections at the Field Museum in Chicago and corresponding author of the paper, ...

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A team of researchers have demonstrated how moss can act as a forensic ‘fingerprint’ when confirming details about a crime ...

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IN the present instalment of Prof. Seward's well-known text-book on fossil plants the interest of the subject may rightly be said to culminate. For this volume deals exclusively with the groups of ...

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms, as ...