According to Pellicer, of 12,000 or so documented plant genomes, all but a half dozen are at least an order of magnitude smaller than that of the fork fern, named Tmesipteris oblanceolata, that ...

This weird fern is the first known plant that turns its dead leaves into new roots. The tree fern Cyathea rojasiana gets thrifty to survive in Panama’s Quebrada Chorro forest.

If you find it strange that such a humble plant has such a gigantic genome, scientists do, too. The enigma emerged in the 1950s, when biologists discovered that the double helix of DNA encodes genes.

We love a good, ‘What I ordered Vs What I got’ post. Normally, however, it’s about an item of clothing that was too small, or a piece of furniture that’s actually meant for a doll house ...

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.