How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early ...

The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create a web ...

With a nickname like ‘skunk cabbage’, the infamously stinky flowers of Symplocarpus renifolius are unlikely to grace a bridal ...

This engaging personality test uses six different leaf types to reveal why people rely on you. Each leaf choice corresponds to a distinct personality trait, such as being a peaceful mediator ...

Hundreds of millions of years before oxygen surged in the atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, swaths of oxygen winked in and out of existence in the ocean.

Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns ...

A microscope image shows the surface of a Kapur Paya fossil leaf. Tiny pores called stomata and the outer skin cells of the ...