The ferns and their relatives first appear in the fossil record some 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period. They diversified into many of the modern fern families and species during the ...

Vegetative reproduction and dispersal by way of gemmae are known to occur in four types of fern gametophytes. Although they belong to basically tropical rain-forest genera, all four types have now ...

Well, ferns don't make seeds. Do they? Back in the Middle Ages, and well into the 16th Century, there was considerable confusion regarding the way plants worked, along with just about everything else.

The plants seem to divide labor to maximize the health of their colonies that grow up the sides of trees. By Elizabeth Preston K.C. Burns’s favorite research days are the ones where he puts on his ...

There is something otherworldly about ferns. Their fronds suggest feathers and wings, and so when looking at them you may think of taking flight, most likely into the pre-historic past when they ...

When you see potted ferns adorning a terrace or wild ferns gracing a woodland path, it's hard to imagine that they represent some of the world's most ancient plants. Fossil findings indicate that ...

There is something otherworldly about ferns. Their fronds suggest feathers and wings, and so when looking at them you may think of taking flight, most likely into the pre-historic past when they ...