Indigenous Indonesian communities—like the Papuan Abui people of Alor—are the custodians of very ancient knowledge. Their ...

Global researchers recently made new progress in the systematics and evolutionary diversity of Mesozoic ginkgoalean plants, according to the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology under the ...

Every year, scientists add thousands of new names to the great book of life. This momentum was initiated by the work of ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

Once upon a time there was a man in a land called Sweden. It was the 1700s and his name was Carl Linnaus.

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A PREVIOUSLY unknown species of carnivorous pitcher plant found only in Palawan has been flagged as critically endangered, after scientists documented an extremely small and fragile population ...

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Researchers from Japan uncovered how glucosylation of lignin-derived signals enables parasitic plants to avoid attacking themselves and related plants Ikoma, Japan—Parasitic plants are notorious ...

Joshua M. Pearce has received funding for research from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Mitacs, the U.S. Department of Energy and ...

ABSTRACT: For the first time, the biological features (morphological features of vegetative and generative organs) of 8-year-old Colchicum autumnale were studied in the conditions of the introduction ...