Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant. The fern, Cyathea ...

Fern species represent one of the most diverse and evolutionarily significant lineages of vascular plants. Over recent decades, phylogenetic studies have endeavoured to elucidate the evolutionary ...

For the first time, researchers have characterized the genome arrangement of tree ferns, which sheds new insight into how ferns evolved. Land plants evolved 470 million years ago from algae and have ...

If you want to get a sense of what life was like during the Carboniferous period some 300 million years ago, visit the Kona Cloud Forest above Kailua. The area abounds with ferns that once were ...

Unique fern sucks nutrients from the soil using dead "zombie leaves" By Ben Coxworth January 29, 2024 Plant biology professor James Dalling and colleagues discovered that some tree ferns recycle their ...

Land plants evolved 470 million years ago from algae and have since reshaped our world. Throughout their evolution, ferns have undergone a series of changes that have helped them survive on land. For ...