Unique fern sucks nutrients from the soil using dead "zombie leaves" By Ben Coxworth January 29, 2024 Plant biology professor James Dalling and colleagues discovered that some tree ferns recycle their ...

Looking very “unfernlike,” the American Climbing Fern has individual leaves that look something like a hand. About the size of a quarter, they can be easy to overlook. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON ...

In a new study published in the journal iScience, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC) in Spain present a new record-holder for the largest ...

Researchers have assembled one of the largest global assessment of fern diversity. The study integrated digitized herbarium data, genetic data, and climatic data and discovered 58% of fern species ...

LAWRENCE -- Nearly all biology textbooks are wrong, according to a new paper co-authored by University of Kansas researcher Christopher Haufler. He and his colleagues are calling on publishers to ...

I covered the evolution of ferns, their place in the general evolution of terrestrial plants and the curious nature of their reproductive cycle. To put it plainly, things got away from me and I didn’t ...