Evolutionarily speaking, the ultimate goal of a lifeform is to reproduce and stave off extinction. Many plants and animals ...

Most of us know a snake plant (Sansevieria or Dracaena trifasciata) for its ability to thrive indoors, near-immortal ...

Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The plant's novel strategy helps it spread without ...

The biology of Antarctic species is very different; warm things up by just a degree or so, and they could emerge into a very ...

This separation of sexes in plants is called dioecy. One reason why dioecy may evolve is because of the negative effects that ...

Right now, multiple states are battling a tiny insect that’s threatening cotton crops in our country, including here in Texas ...

ATRIMED today shared an update on a long running research effort led in part by physician scientist Dr. Latha Damle, whose ...

At any scale, invasive species can burden their new ecosystems. Feral pigs sustain harmful digging and foraging habits that ...

How do seedless grapes grow if they have no seeds? Seedless grapes don’t reproduce naturally by seed. They actually do contain seeds at some point, but they never form hard, outer ...

Plants have their own survival strategies that have worked for millions of years, but gardeners constantly interfere trying ...

Traditional treatments like pesticides can be costly to deploy and risk poisoning the soil, preventing other plants from ...