Flowers

A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by climate change.

From delicate dandelions to mighty oak trees, millions of plants use seeds to reproduce. But where did the first seeds come from?

Flowers use a variety of strategies to inform pollinating insects about their pollen reserves, including color, smell and even electrical changes.

Crocodiles appeared to rescue a dog that had been chased into a river, and scientists said this unusual behavior could indicate empathy — but others are skeptical.

Scientists have discovered flowering plants were largely unscathed by the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million years ago, allowing them to take advantage of the new, dinosaur-free planet.

Henon bamboo flowers only once every 120 years then vanishes for years, and researchers have no idea how it regenerates.

A new study debunks the idea that Neanderthals buried a man on a bed of flowers about 75,000 years ago.

Scientists in Brazil may have observed the first example of an amphibian pollinating a flowering plant.

The fossilized flower is the largest ever discovered.

Ancient bouquets found under Teotihuacan pyramid in Mexico may have been offerings to a fertility god.