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A study from Kobe University has uncovered a surprising partnership between Japanese red elder plants and Heterhelus beetles.

As the summer break approaches, the National Museum of the Philippines on Tuesday cautioned Filipinos not to pick up the flower urchin (Toxopneustes pileolus) found on the country’s beaches since its ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

With vascular tissue, plant life really started to flourish. By about 360 million years ago, vast forests covered much of Earth. Giant ferns and treelike plants, some over 100 feet (30 meters) tall, ...

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For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival – and new research shows how flowers do it is more intriguing ...

Investment by Swiss-based group contrasts with pharma companies withdrawing funding from British research facilities ...