according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that challenge our conventional understanding about the evolution of ...

Evolution of land plants (simplified chart). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth ... algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed a shared stress response network using advanced ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

New research reveals insights into the genetic blueprints of hornworts, uncovering fascinating details about plant evolution and the early days of life on land. "We began by decoding the genomes ...

the first woody plants appeared, and the water's edge was becoming a new kind of environment. The move to land was a very gradual process, and the evolution of limbs wasn't a simple adaptation ...

Almost all land plants control their stomata very precisely ... follows a predictable trajectory through the history of plant evolution. We argue it began with a relatively simple ancestral ...