Have you noticed some curly, spiky, gray-green, alien-like plants resting in a shell, hanging from a ceiling, perched on ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

Deep in the Namib Desert, Africa's wildest wilderness, among the many interesting discoveries of the desert lives a remarkable survivor. Known in Afrikaans as "tweeblaarkanniedood" meaning, "two ...

Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that sheds more light on the planet’s ancient diversity. Researchers first spotted the ...

The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries.

Most home gardeners pottering around with trowel, plant cuttings and a bag of mulch behind the old homestead don’t think of themselves as “nature’s best and last hope.” Doug Tallamy, an entomologist ...

“Invasive alien species are a major threat to biodiversity and can cause irreversible damage to nature, including local and global species extinctions, and also threaten human wellbeing,” said ...