Plants

Greenland was almost completely ice-free at some point in the last one million years, fossilized flowers from a core sample taken from the center of the island reveal.

"Sailors believed they grew underwater at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and it was thought that male trees uprooted themselves on stormy nights and walked to find female trees, embracing them to pollinate their large flowers."

Trees don't like to breathe wildfire smoke, either.

Plants growing at the bottom of sinkholes in China's Dashiwei Tiankeng Group don't take up as much carbon as surface plants do, but they have much higher levels of nutrients in their tissues.

While it may initially appear that strawberries are fruits covered in seeds, this is not actually the case.

A single specimen of an ancient tree species was found in 1895. Now scientists are using AI to find it a mate.

"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom.

Project seeks to protect ancient tree lineages that have survived from a time before Earth’s continents broke apart.

A 77-square-mile seagrass meadow at the bottom of Shark Bay in Western Australia is both Earth's largest plant and largest clone.

This little moss withstands deadly blasts of radiation, extreme cold and dehydration — and could probably survive on Mars.