In our area, the time to prepare beds for planting ferns is in the spring since all but the hardiest species die back in our ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

Learn more about the newly found fossils that show plant resilience during the “Great Dying.” ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

A recently uncovered fossil location in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin suggests that some terrestrial ecosystems were only marginally affected by the most cataclysmic extinction event in Earth’s history, ...

In Fielding Questions, readers also asked about buying and growing Norland potatoes as well as dusting houseplants.

Fossils more than 200 million years old have helped scientists from University College Cork (UCC) trace how plants coped in ...

Scientists found that forests did not recover quickly after Earth’s worst extinction. Instead, plant life changed in phases.