The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in Japan, said in a statement. “For many years I have been fascinated by plants ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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

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

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

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

Russian scientists successfully revived 24,000-year-old micro-organisms, bdelloid rotifers, from Siberian permafrost, showcasing the marvel of cryptobiosis.