Researchers have described six species of ferns new to science from the tropical forests of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, all in the genus Danaea. “The described species are no tiny or ...

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Feeling the ferns? What to know about planting them at home Feel free to harvest them from the woods, but first figure out which species you want in your yard.

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve ‘backward.’ ...

A new study identified the largest known genome of any organism in a fern found in Pacific islands. Its cells have more than 50 times the DNA as human cells have.

A small fern found only on a few Pacific islands has more than 100 metres of DNA in every single cell, more than any other organism that we know of ...

Autumn ferns, asparagus ferns, dwarf river ferns and Australian sword ferns are a few of our other Texas fern varieties. The quality of the soil can have a big impact on growing fern plants.

Seed ferns: Plants experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago Flowering plant-type leaf veins died out and re-evolved several times in the course of the Earth's history ...

Ferns aren’t any better preserved in the fossil record than other types of plants, and so their explosion in abundance in the centuries following the asteroid’s impact suggests that “something about ...