You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly ...

Since Darwin's time, the phenomenon known as flower constancy -- i.e., where insects consistently visit the same flower type even when many others are also present -- has been understood as a passive ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized. Without ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first-ever method of detecting ribonucleic acid, or RNA, ...

The flowerpot snake, recognized as one of the smallest snakes globally, possesses some remarkable characteristics.

Commonly called the "corpse flower," Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

Clara Lacy's 'The World Has Dropped Its Petals' is a series of elaborately detailed drawings illuminating the world of ...

Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with ...

With furry white leaves and maroon-streaked florets, the newly identified plant has been dubbed "wooly devil." ...