A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

Antarctica holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth, with Russia’s Vostok Station plunging to −128 ...

“The Berkshires has a long history of trees,” Rene Wendell says via phone. For the past seven years, Wendell has worked as a land steward in Western Massachusetts for The Nature Conservancy in their ...

This rare plant looks like a mushroom is actually a parasitic flowering species. Scientists reveal how Balanophora survives ...

Rows of uniform holes, either horizontal (most commonly) or vertical, might look like an insect attack, but they are more likely caused by a bird with an unusual name – the yellow-bellied sapsucker ...

Real Christmas trees can harbour unwanted guests with praying mantis egg sacs containing up to 200 eggs that can hatch in ...

Q. I have read that ginkgo trees can live for hundreds of years. Is this true, and what makes them so unusual? Why are they called “living fossils”? A. Modern ginkgoes belong to a single species of ...