Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it ...

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 ...

Modern Farmer: What motivated you to start Mountain Moss? ‘Every time I see the bulldozers, my heart aches for all of the plants that got destroyed.’ Annie Martin: I had a two-pronged stimulus. Number ...

Large mammals and exotic plants get all the attention, and conservation efforts are often directed at protecting them. Who who protects our mosses? This often-neglected group of non-vascular lower ...

It’s ironic. The 230,000 specimens of bryophytes -- mosses and their cousins-- in the Duke Herbarium’s massive collection may have evolved some 500 million years ago. But not until 21st-century ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A volunteer team at the California Academy of Sciences has reached a milestone in its research collection. The academy now has more than 100,000 specimens of a plant group called ...

<em>Researchers have developed a method to evaluate atmospheric conditions using mosses (bryophytes) in urban areas, a development that could facilitate broader ...

Bryophytes make up a full 25% (1/4) of all understory biomass That’s equivalent to 1% of the aboveground tree biomass—a tiny fraction in size, but massive in significance when scaled across millions ...

The earliest case the team found was from 1929, when the growth rate of mosses on a decomposing skeleton helped investigators ...

The National Cancer Institute's record of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) screened for biologically active chemicals is reviewed. In 1977, an extract of a moss from Maryland, ...

Moving to an island may not be good for your libido — if you’re a moss, new research shows. While humans may react differently to that balmy island air, mosses that get to remote islands tend to lose ...

Learning about flowering plants (angiosperms) can be a lifelong study for a gardener. One report states that they include 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and about 295,383 known ...