Plants

The species evolved within the last 150 years.

Scientists are still unsure how the weird bare spots form and how exactly they grow.

Strange bare spots persist for decades, with the largest lasting a lifetime.

The southernmost continent hasn't always been sheathed in ice.

The relative plant is only one-fourth the size of the corpse flower.

Even after 100 years, restored wetlands rarely equal their conditions of the past.

Pioneering botanist gets taxonomic recognition.

The adhesive properties of meat-eating sundew plants and the nanoparticles in English ivy are being harnessed for innovative medical and cosmetic applications.

Sandi Copeland investigates early humans' search for food and mates using traces left in fossil teeth and modern wild plant foods.

Extinction levels from habitat loss may not be as bad as predicted, as evidenced by a lack of observed extinctions.

Mobile app can ID tree species out on the trail.

These fossilized organisms might have given rise to complex land creatures like animals and plants.

Teh-hui Kao, who studies how plants prevent inbreeding, answers the ScienceLives questions

Species discovery is surprise in well-studied Iberian Peninsula.

From Venus flytraps whose trap leaves snap shut around unsuspecting prey to the cobra lily's maze of false exits, carnivorous plants are creative killers.

Bladderworts boast the fastest carnivorous traps on Earth.

Two month long expeditions to New Guinea turn up almost 200 new species.

Bugs send vibrations along leaves and stems to communicate without attracting the attention of predators.

These stinkers will make your stomach turn.