The initial radiation of vascular land plants, evidenced by increases in both diversity and morphological disparity during ...

Over 450 million years ago, plants began the epic transition from water to dry land. Among the first pioneers were the ancestors of humble hornworts, a group of small, unassuming plants that have ...

If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer bird song, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere, where ...

In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, the formation and evolution of the biota in Hainan Island were revealed via research on their genomes, phylogeny, and molecular biogeography. It ...

the first woody plants appeared, and the water's edge was becoming a new kind of environment. The move to land was a very gradual process, and the evolution of limbs wasn't a simple adaptation ...

Researchers decoded the genomes of ten hornwort species, revealing stable chromosomes and dynamic accessory DNA despite 300 million years of evolution. Highlighting hornworts' role in early land plant ...

In this issue, we present a collection of articles that explore how the evolution of terrestrial plants and the Earth's surface have affected each other. Reports from the Kepler mission have ...