Moss spores have just joined the short list of life forms proven to withstand the raw vacuum of space for months at a time, surviving unshielded on the exterior of the International Space Station and ...

Mosses thrive in the most extreme environments on Earth, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the sands of Death Valley, the Antarctic tundra to the lava fields of active volcanoes. Inspired by moss's ...

Insect-plant interactions in fern and moss ecosystems represent a largely understudied yet ecologically significant component of terrestrial food webs. Bryophytes and pteridophytes offer distinct ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Well, ferns don't make seeds. Do they? Back in the Middle Ages, and well into the 16th Century, there was considerable confusion ...

FOR THOSE OF US who do not identify as pterdomaniacs — that’s fern fanatic in laymen’s terms — this vast family of plants can be confounding. Unlike most plants familiar to gardeners, ferns do not ...

Botonists reveals that the unique timing of spore dispersal in the sensitive fern, known as Onoclea sensibilis, is determined by a structural mechanism of humidity-driven movement in spore bearing ...

The sensitive fern—named due to its sensitivity to drought and frost—is a widespread species found throughout eastern North America and eastern Asia. It is a dimorphic plant because it has two ...