Scientists may be underestimating how plants will respond to rising global temperatures when they study hot summers but not ...

They were non-vascular plants, like mosses and liverworts, that didn’t have deep roots. About 35 million years later, ice sheets briefly covered much of the planet and a mass extinction ensued.

The clubmosses and their relatives are the most ancient group of vascular plants — plants with specialized tissue called xylem that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant. The only plant ...

An MSU team synthesized data from 126 simulated warming experiments from across the globe. They learned that experiments with ...

Non-vascular plants, such as mosses, hornworts and liverworts, probably evolved during the Ordovician period, around 450 million years ago. They are older than vascular plants, ...

Plants frozen alongside Ötzi hold clues to his final journey. Pictured: Ötzi displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Bolzano on February 28, 2011. Andrea Solero/AFP/Getty ...

Non-vascular plants, such as mosses, hornworts and liverworts, probably evolved during the Ordovician period, around 450 million years ago. They are older than vascular plants, ...