An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

Many mountain ranges contain semi-natural habitats experiencing little human interference. They are home to many animal and plant species, some of them endemic and highly specialized. Mountains have ...

Humans have cultivated plants outside their native ranges for thousands of years. But as the world became increasingly interconnected over the past five hundred years, the scale of cultivation of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lot of people think of plants as pretty to look at, but defenceless and passive as far as organisms go. However, the many alien ...

Alien life could take many different forms, but one possibility is captivating scientists: alien "plants". What would they look like? And how could we find them? On the Orion arm of the Milky Way ...

A lot of people think of plants as pretty to look at, but defenceless and passive as far as organisms go. However, the many alien species – or “monster plants” – around us show we should never ...

The plant was entirely unique, with features no modern plant shares, making it an outsider in the fossil record A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most ...