A team of paleontologists from the United States, France, Germany and Spain has identified a Lower Cretaceous freshwater plant named Montsechia vidalii...
An international team of researchers has identified molecules in the earthworm gut that enable digestion of polyphenol-rich plant material, such as fallen...
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications has shown that, despite not having a nervous system, plants send signals normally associated...
The light-sensing molecules that tell plants whether to germinate, when to flower and which direction to grow were inherited millions of years ago from...
The study, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that carnivorous plants have reflective structures that are acoustically attractive for mutualistic...
A feathered dinosaur from North and South Dakota, a species of pufferfish from Japan, a cartwheeling spider from Morocco, a ‘walking stick’ from Vietnam,...
Sci-News.com compiles an annual list of the top 20 new species of animals, plants and insects found in the past twelve months.
1. Araguaian boto (Inia...
Insect-eating plants of the genus Nepenthes temporarily switch off their traps in order to lure more prey into danger, according to a new study published...
According to a new study of fossilized leaves of angiosperms (flowering plants excluding conifers) published in the journal PLoS Biology, the massive asteroid...
U.S. biologists led by Prof James Westwood of the Virginia Tech’s Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science have found that parasitic...
Plants in the Central and South American genus Axinaea have a unique and highly complex bird pollination system, according to a new study published in...
Analysis of sediment samples from El Salt – a known site of Neanderthal occupation in Spain that dates back 50,000 years – suggests that Neanderthals...
Biologists have described a new species of moonseed plant from the dry forests and transient sand dunes of Bolivia and Paraguay.
Cissampelos arenicola,...
Botanists from the University of Calicut in Kerala, India, have described a new species in the genus Musa.
Musa arunachalensis. Image credit: Sreejith...
An international team of botanists has described a new, nickel-hyperaccumulating species of plant from Luzon Island, Philippines.
Rinorea niccolifera....
By using the same experimental framework normally applied to test learnt behavioral responses in animals, biologists from Australia and Italy have successfully...
Biologists have announced the discovery of an extraordinary new species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae.
Beautiful inflorescence of Coespeletia...
Well-preserved fossilized pollen grains found in northern Switzerland provide evidence that flowering plants may have originated in the early Triassic...
Biologist Dr Ruth Kiew of the Forest Research Institute Malaysia has described a beautiful new species of plant from the Peninsular Malaysia.
Ridleyandra...
An international team of researchers has used an X-ray laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look for the first time at the structure and...
