Before plants evolved, vegetative life consisted of primitive green algae living in the sea. Like plants, these algae ...

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 ...

What came first — the plant or the seed? Columnist Carol Barany explores how plants made the leap from water to land, why ...

A team at Washington University traced how plants gained duplicate DNA-control enzymes that evolved into new functions, boosting their ability to handle stress. The finding shows how a single genetic ...

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its ...

Lipstick vines in Taiwan look different from their red-flowered relatives. When scientists dug into the family tree, they uncovered an evolutionary mystery.

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Andre A. Naranjo is Botanical Curator at Florida ...

This seems to have been the way carnivorous plants evolved their meat-eating abilities — at least for those genes examined so far. What came as more of a surprise was the discovery that whenever and ...