The road from Irkutsk to the resort town of Listvyanka curls for about an hour through a white forest frozen under thick snow. My driver, Sasha, turned down his favorite techno music: “Here it is,” he ...

Scientists believe they're dealing with a new beast in Saginaw Bay, or at least one they didn't think was there. A species of algae called spirogyra may be more prevalent in the bay than has been ...

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Research team from the Kiel Plant Center investigated how plant cell wall components support adaptation to land-based life The transition from aquatic to terrestrial life was one of the greatest ...

It was previously thought that land plants evolved from stonewort-like algae. However, new research shows that the closest relatives to land plants are actually conjugating green algae such as ...

The transition from aquatic to terrestrial life was one of the greatest challenges during the evolution of plants. About 500 million years ago, some evolutionary ancestor of today's land plants ...