Flowers may look delicate—but flowering plants, what scientists call angiosperms, are one of the most successful evolutionary organisms on the planet. Including more than 350,000 known species, they ...

Researchers Violeta Simón, Marcial Escudero and Juan Arroyo, from the Department of Botany at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Seville, in collaboration with researchers from four other ...

Pansies are having less sex. That’s the punchline of a recent study, as summarized in The New York Times, which reported that certain flowers are evolving to self-fertilize more often as populations ...

According to the researchers, photogrammetry has the potential to boost research on flower evolution and ecology by providing a simple way to access three-dimensional morphological data. Databases of ...

Biologists published a study demonstrating that photogrammetry allows rapid and precise three-dimensional reconstruction of flowers from two-dimensional images. To better understand the evolution of ...

The centerpiece of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in Stockholm, is probably the Fossils and Evolution hall, in which an enormous Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton seems to yawn over crowds of ...

"How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries" By David George Haskell (Viking, 352 pages, $32) David George Haskell will speak in Convocation Hall at Sewanee: The University of ...

To better understand the evolution of flowers, a research team in biology from Université de Montréal, the Montreal Botanical Garden and McGill University have succeeded in using photogrammetry to ...