Here are 25 plant facts I find fascinating. Apples, plums and strawberries are in the botanical rose family, and they share many common characteristics with rose shrubs.

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. The ...

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record ...