From diverse shapes and sizes to complex dispersals and defenses, seed traits hold the secrets to how plants adapt, reproduce ...

Europe is facing a seed dispersal “crisis,” due to extinction threats and population changes among the animals that do the seed dispersing, according to a new synthesis by Sara Beatriz ...

To better understand early wind dispersal mechanism, Wang and colleagues studied several seed fossils from the Late Devonian, sourced from the Jianchuan mine in Xinhang Town, Anhui Province, China.

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: ...

After millions of years of evolutionary isolation, Madagascar developed an unparalleled array of wildlife, and recent ...

In this edition of North Woods Naturalist, Chel Anderson talks about the ubiquitous and much maligned dandelion.  Chel ...