Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a long tongue based on a comet orchid's nectar spurs. This was ...

Mr. Cañas-Valle’s discovery, described in the journal Ornithology in November, may be the first documented example of ...

University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening ...

New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Scientists studied plant DNA to understand past extinctions. They found that warming climates increase competition, ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...