Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

Update: The game has been deleted from the Roblox platform due to copyright issues. Inspired by games like Plants Vs. Zombies ...

Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events — and therefore largely unpredictable. But an international ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

Land plants—such as mosses, ferns and trees—are some of the most structurally complex photosynthesizing organisms on Earth.

Urban environments have become hotspots for understanding how rapid evolution occurs in response to extreme environmental changes. These habitats exert selective pressures on resident organisms that ...

Ants can be found in huge numbers in almost all of the world’s regions and habitats. But how did they become the most populous, highly diverse insect species on the planet? Scientists may have an ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...

A 400-million-year-old fossil reveals that, unlike most modern plants, some of the earliest land plants didn’t have leaves radiating out at angles that follow the Fibonacci sequence. The discovery ...

The tomato plants on the older eastern islands, however, were making the same blend of alkaloids found in modern cultivated tomatoes. Diving deeper, the researchers found that the reason the western ...