Promotional Widget for West Hawaii Today Jobs. Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million years. Giant tree fern forests ...

Journey through ancient forests across America that predate the nation by millennia, from redwood giants to mossy rainforests ...

Aussies are being urged to join the fight against a worrying issue after ancient Tasmanian tree ferns, some believed to be ...

In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients. By Douglas Main In the rainforests of western Panama, the ...

Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant. The fern, Cyathea ...

PARADISE, MI -- With 48,000 acres of wilderness there’s no shortage of plant discoveries in Tahquamenon Falls State Park in the Upper Peninsula. While navigating the 40 miles of hiking trails you’ll ...

Mixing tree species can lead to better growth in the forest—at least above ground. A new study published in Nature shows that mixed forests had lower activity in the complex belowground ecosystems ...

Click to open image viewer. Botanical and landscape sketch of a tall tree fern in a lush, mountainous forest in Jamaica. The tree's thin trunk climbs up the center of the composition, culminating in a ...

The way trees grow together do not resemble how branches grow on a single tree, scientists have discovered. The way trees grow together do not resemble how branches grow on a single tree, scientists ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million years. Giant tree fern forests were common for millions of years but they gave ...

The way trees grow together do not resemble how branches grow on a single tree, scientists have discovered. Nature is full of surprising repetitions. In trees, the large branches often look like ...