In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

A research team at the University of California, Davis, has shown that cabernet sauvignon vines carry stable epigenetic ...

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

We speak with Milan Řezáč about a new spider found on Prague’s Petřín Hill that reproduces without males—the first ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

The plant was not in bloom when it was collected in Bahia back in 2023, and had not raised suspicions of being such a unique ...

One ocean-dwelling creature found in many tropic waters is known to be able to reserve its own life cycle, cheating death.

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In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the eye of conservationists ...

Analysis of 309 strains suggests that the genus Escovopsis originated about 56.9 million years ago, but did not begin ...