Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns ...

If you're looking to add ferns for a lush, grotto-like garden, no worries—you can propagate them from rhizomes to easily fill ...

Organisms that have evolved down "one-way" paths may lack the flexibility to respond to new selection pressures in particular ...

but that's tricky for the isolated King Ferns, because its spores have to be no more than a day old in order to grow. Jerry's going to use "oracles" instead. They're the ear-like structures at the ...

From delicate dandelions to mighty oak trees, millions of plants use seeds to reproduce. But where did the first seeds come from?

You find many ferns growing in the archetypal damp shade because of their complicated reproductive system. They produces spores, usually on specialised leaves which, in some species, can be ...