Long before machines, cities, or written history, eight plants reshaped humanity’s fate. This video traces how wild grasses ...

Plants are usually seen as stationary life forms, quietly supporting environments. But plant communities and populations are ...

Flowering plants (angiosperms) dominate most terrestrial ecosystems, providing the bulk of human food. However, their origin has been a mystery since the earliest days of evolutionary thought.

The origin of flowering plants famously puzzled Charles Darwin, who described their sudden appearance in the fossil record from relatively recent geological times as an 'abominable mystery'. The ...