Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

Since the 1750s, at least 571 species of plants have gone extinct in the wild, according to a global survey recently published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. More than eight plant species have ...

Every species, from the apex predator down to the smallest plant and fungi, plays a specific role in the ecosystem that they are native to. However, when a non-native species is introduced to an ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of the elusive 'fairy lantern' genus Thismia in a hill dipterocarp forest in ...

Russian researchers have brought to life a long extinct plant, using seeds buried by a squirrel 32,000 years ago. The ice age traces of silene stenophylla, were found in a frozen riverbank in Siberia.

But what was the world like in the millions of years leading up to this ... It's 144-149 million-years-old. Bennettitales are an extinct group of plants that looked a lot like cycads. 'Cycads have ...

which depend on plants for food, shelter, and survival. Globally, 21 percent of the total evaluated reptiles in the world are deemed endangered or vulnerable to extinction by the IUCN — 594 species — ...