The plant kingdom is utterly fascinating and still has a lot to be discovered. From plants that can attack animals to those that give electric shocks, these botanicals are far from fully understood.

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

The warming world has disrupted the timing for plant and animal reproduction, and it's usually bad news for species that ...

The titan arum is widely regarded as one of the smelliest flowers on Earth. When it blooms, it releases a powerful odour similar to rotting flesh to attract carrion-loving insects. The enormous ...

One of the most marginalized and in fact understudied plant groups, hornworts, has the potential to provide a long-awaited ...

Before Disney softened them for the screen, fairy tales were strange, unsettling stories about monsters, danger and survival. The CU Art Museum’s new exhibition “Fairy Tales and the Power of ...

Japanese red elder plants protect their own survival by dropping fruits that contain Heterhelus beetle larvae. Surprisingly, this action also allows ...

While climates are regional patterns of weather, microclimates are smaller areas within them which exhibit distinct ...

Male green treefrogs attract mates with loud calls, but new research shows parasites can subtly change those signals.

We’re used to green plants, but that color is shaped by our Sun. On planets orbiting different types of stars, photosynthesis could evolve to absorb different wavelengths of light — producing red, ...