Galapagos daisies evolved similar jagged leaves through different genes. This shows evolution can reach the same result in ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaves are food factories for the tree. Powered by sunlight, the green ...

Pick up a leaf and it is hard not to notice the pattern made by the veins. For years, biologists, mathematicians and even poets and philosophers have tried to decipher the rules and regulations behind ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Hickory trees have a leaf with less than nine leaflets and an alternate leaf ...

New research shows oak trees can delay leaf emergence by three days following heavy caterpillar infestations, depriving the pests of food and reducing damage by 55%. The tactic, revealed through ...